CBC is the first hematology test in the catalogue. The sample line says EDTA whole blood. The method line says automated cell counter. The opening price is ₹350. That price is a starting rate on the software. The reception desk should change it if the laboratory charges something else.
What is on the CBC
The parameters are hemoglobin, total leucocyte count, RBC count, PCV, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW-CV, platelet count, MPV, the five-part differential in percent, and the absolute neutrophil and lymphocyte counts. Platelets open in lakh per cumm, 1.50 to 4.50. TLC from age 12 opens at 4,000 to 11,000 cells per cumm.
Hemoglobin is not one range for everybody. A newborn, a child and an adult each have a band. From 15 years, the band that opens is 12.0–15.0 g/dL for a female patient and 13.0–17.0 g/dL for a male patient. Critical marks on that adult band sit at 7 and 20 g/dL. If the laboratory’s own counter uses a different adult range, edit it on the test before reports go out. The range that prints is the one that matched the patient when the order was booked.
Other hematology tests on the same list
ESR opens at ₹100, Westergren method, on EDTA or citrate blood. Under 50 years the opening band is 0–15 mm in the first hour for a man and 0–20 for a woman. From 50 it is 0–20 and 0–30. Peripheral smear is a typed report: RBC morphology, WBC morphology, platelets on the smear, and an impression. Blood group is ABO and Rh, opening price ₹150. Bleeding time and clotting time are on capillary blood.
A half-filled CBC still prints. Empty rows are left off the page. The full department list is on the catalogue page.