What is the Purpose of Hemoglobin and Blood Cell Count Tests?

Do you know who are the persons who will examine the components of you precious blood? These people are trained on testing your blood and they are called medical technologist.  These people are graduate in college carrying a Bachelor's degree in Medical Technology or any Associate's degree.   Before they can be qualified in working they need to pass a national examination.  The work of a phlebotomist is to draw your blood for examination purposes.  But if these people are not available, the nurse can do that task and submit your blood sample into the lab. You may look for hemoglobin meter.

CBC, C stands for complete, B stands for blood and another C stand for count, the test that doctors always demand.  But inside the laboratory this test is called ABC or automated blood count. The purpose of doing this test is to count all the cells in our blood like your WBC's, RBC’s and platelets. The test is done only in the Hematology department of the lab with machines that are complicated to work and only lab techs can run it properly and they need to keep it safe all the time.
 This test is not vey expensive as what you think. Not all laboratories has the same way of doing the test that is why they have different results.

Complete Blood Count has various test that are listed below:

•    Test for the count of your red blood cells.  For male their normal RBC count ranges from 4.2 to 5.6 million per mcl blood. The normal count of RBC for all women is actually 3.9-5.2 million per mcl blood.

•    (hgb) Hemoglobin count test. Your hemoglobin is a protein which binds the oxygen to your rbc's and distributes oxygen to the body.  For the normal level of the males it is actually 14-18 g/dl blood.   For the hemoglobin level for the females is twelve to sixteen g/dl blood. 

•     A test for your Hematocrit. Your hematocrit indicates the percentage of your red cells in your blood.  The human blood is made up of two important substances, the plasma that is watery substance and half of it is the cell.  Now the majority of the cells in the blood is red cells making your blood color red.  Why are some people suffer from anemia?  This is because they have low hct. The normal value of hematocrit for males ranges from 40 to 54%. For women if you have a hematocrit value that ranges from 37-47%, this is normal.   In the case that the result of your hematocrit test is forty percent means that the 60% of the blood is plasma. 

•    Test to count all you white blood cells. For well people their normal count of WBC ranges from 5,000 to 10,000 wbc/mcl of blood.

•    Differential test that can differentiate the five kinds of white blood cells. The percentage of certain kinds of the WBC’s is higher in bacterial infections, there are also types that has higher percentage in viral infection, and there are type that has higher risk in allergies and parasitic infections. Today, this type of test is done through a sophisticated machine, but they are only machines made by people that is why sometimes these machine will not function accordingly, so the laboratory tech would do the test by using a microscope before they will show the result.

•    Platelet count- the purpose of this hemoglobin home test is to count the platelets that is present in your blood and they will be the one to do blood clotting.  Your platelet are considered as the smallest kind of blood cells. For well individuals the normal array is definitely one hundred thousand to four hundred thousand per mcl of blood.

So, all of that are the basic tests of the CBC (ABC). Other values that you want to find out have to do with boundaries of the red blood cell. All these tests are done only in the Hematology department of the laboratory.