Vol. 2 Issue 2 Part E

Introduction: Haemoglobin is the iron containing oxygen carrying protein in the red blood cells in all the vertebrates. There are many methods for the estimation of haemoglobin with its pros and cons. Sahli’s method is the traditional manual and low-cost effective method with a few disadvantages. Cyanmethemoglobin method is the alternative manual method for Sahli’s method discovered to overcome the disadvantages of the Sahli’s method. The Auto analyzer method is the newly advent commonly used method with a disadvantage of high instrumental charges. This study is to compare the manual Sahli’s method with a few technical changes and the auto analyzer method of hemoglobin estimation.