List of medical tests

medical test is a medical procedure performed to detect, diagnose, or monitor diseases, disease processes, susceptibility, or to determine a course of treatment. The tests are classified by speciality field allowing to know in which ward of hospital or by which specialist doctor are usually these tests performed. This list is not exhaustive but might be useful as a guide.

Where available, ICD-10 codes are listed.

Consulting Room Tests

These tests are usually performed in a consulting room by any doctor and require no advanced equipment.

• general
  • Temperature measurement, with a thermometer
  • Patient's Respiratory rate measurement
  • Blood oxygen concentration measurement
  • taking the patient's pulse
  • weighing, and measuring height and girth
  • measuring blood pressure
• specific:
  • abdominal palpation
  • cardiac ausculation
  • HEENT examination
  • digital rectal examination
  • neurological examination
  • psychiatric assessment
  • pulmonary auscultation
  • vaginal examination

Cardiovascular

• coronary catheterization
• echocardiography
• electrocardiogram
• ballistocardiogram

Dermatology

• skin allergy test
• skin biopsy

Ear, Nose and Throat

• hearing test
• laryngoscopy
• vestibular tests
  • electronystagmography (ENG)
  • videonystagmography (VNG)

Gastrointestinal

• capsule endoscopy
• coloscopy
• endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
• esophagogastroduodenoscopy
• esophageal motility study
• esophageal pH monitoring
• liver biopsy

Hematology

• bone marrow examination

Laboratory

• biochemistry
  • Arterial blood gas (ABG)
  • Complete blood count (CBC)
  • Comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) (including CHEM-7)
  • coagulation tests
  • C-reactive protein
  • Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
  • FibroTest
  • urea breath test
  • urinalysis
    • Agostini's reaction
• cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics
  • Genetic testing
• immunology
  • autoantibodies
• microbiology
  • blood culture
  • mantoux test
  • sputum culture
  • stool culture
  • urine culture

Neurological

• electroencephalogram
• electromyography (EMG)
• lumbar puncture
• neuropsychological tests

Obstetric / Gynaecological

• amniocentesis
• colposcopy
• mammography
• hysteroscopy
• laparoscopy
• Smear tests such as Pap smears

Ocular

• dilated fundus examination
• multifocal electroretinography (mfERG)
• optical coherence tomography (OCT)
• visual field test

Pulmonary

• polysomnography
• pulmonary pletysmography
• thoracentesis

Radiology

• CT scan (B*2****)
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (B*3****)
• nuclear medicine (C******)
• positron-emission tomography (PET)
• projectional radiography (B*0****)
• ultrasonography (B*4****)

Rheumatologic

• arthroscopy

Urologic

• cystoscopy
• urodynamic testing