Laboratory Medicine

The Clinical Laboratory of Shanghai International Medical Center (SIMC) is a comprehensive laboratory serving the whole hospital, with technical staff at senior, intermediate and junior levels. It has five specialty groups: clinical biochemistry, clinical immunology, clinical microbiology, blood and body fluids, and the blood bank. It performs or arranges more than 400 tests throughout the day, including routine and emergency clinical tests, blood and body fluid tests, biochemistry, immunology and clinical transfusion.

Its instruments include a Roche 702 automated biochemistry analyzer, Roche 601 automated immunoassay analyzer, SYSMEX-XN automated hematology analyzer, Snibe automated chemiluminescence immunoassay analyzer, Werfen ACL TOP automated coagulation analyzer, TOSOH G11 automated glycated hemoglobin analyzer, IQ200 SPRINT automated urine formed-element analyzer and MVIS-2040 automated blood rheology analyzer. These provide objective data for diagnosis and differential diagnosis, monitoring treatment response, prognosis, screening, prevention and care.

The laboratory’s quality policy is timeliness, scientific rigor, accuracy, efficiency and innovation. In addition to daily internal quality control, it participates in external quality assessment by the Shanghai Center for Clinical Laboratory and reports good results. It maintains strict rules and standard operating procedures for all instruments and tests, which technical staff are required to follow.