Fundamentals of the Study of Urine and Body Fluids

Fundamentals of the Study of Urine and Body Fluids

Author: John W. Ridley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 331978417X

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This volume provides the essential theory as well as practice for the study of urine and body fluids other than urine. It is a concise compendium of information both of a practical as well as a clinical resource for understanding conditions of patients with whom the laboratory analyst has contact. It informs the reader not only of the how to perform certain tests but also of the why these tests are clinically important and therefore helps in obtaining the best clinical data possible.


Body Fluid Management

Body Fluid Management

Author: F.E. Agro

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 8847026601

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The administration of intravenous fluids is one of the most common and important therapeutic practices in the treatment of surgical, medical and critically ill patients. The international literature accordingly contains a vast number of works on fluid management, yet there is still confusion as to the best options in the various situations encountered in clinical practice. The purpose of this volume is to help the decision-making process by comparing different solution properties describing their indications, mechanisms of action and side-effects according to physiologic body water distribution, electrolytic and acid-base balance, and to clarify which products available on the market represent the best choice in different circumstances. The book opens by discussing in detail the concepts central to a sound understanding of abnormalities in fluid and electrolyte homeostasis and the effect of intravenous fluid administration. In the second part of the monograph, these concepts are used to explain the advantages and disadvantages of solutions available on the market in different clinical settings. Body Fluid Management: From Physiology to Therapy will serve as an invaluable decision-making guide, including for those who are not experts in the subject.


Kjeldsberg's Body Fluid Analysis

Kjeldsberg's Body Fluid Analysis

Author: Jerry W. Hussong

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780891895824

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Reworked with expanded chapters that now cover urine, semen and specialized body fluids such as vitreous fluid and sweat, this is the only fluids book available that goes beyond morphology and features extensive new ancillary methods in cytogenetics, flow cytometry, IHC, and molecular analysis.


Urinalysis & Body Fluids

Urinalysis & Body Fluids

Author: Susan King Strasinger

Publisher: F.A. Davis

Published: 2008-02-20

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 080362087X

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Practical, focused, and reader friendly, this popular text teaches the theoretical and practical knowledge every clinical laboratory scientist needs to handle and analyze non-blood body fluids, and to keep you and your laboratory safe from infectious agents. The 5th Edition has been completely updated to include all of the new information and new testing procedures that are important in this rapidly changing field. Case studies and clinical situations show how work in the classroom translates to work in the lab.


Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School

Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School

Author: Ruben E. Verwaal

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3030515419

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This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on the role of anatomy, this study shows that the chemical analyses of bodily fluids in the Dutch Republic radically altered perceptions of the body, propelling forwards a new system of medicine. It examines the new research methods and scientific instruments available at the turn of the eighteenth century that allowed for these developments, taken forward by Herman Boerhaave and his students. Each chapter focuses on a different bodily fluid – saliva, blood, urine, milk, sweat, semen – to investigate how doctors gained new insights into physiological processes through chemical experimentation on these bodily fluids. The book reveals how physicians moved from a humoral theory of medicine to new chemical and mechanical models for understanding the body in the early modern period. In doing so, it uncovers the lives and works of an important group of scientists which grew to become a European-wide community of physicians and chemists.


Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Author: Mark Bradley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0429798598

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From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought. Comprising 24 chapters across seven key themes—language, gender, eroticism, nutrition, dissolution, death, and afterlife—this volume investigates bodily fluids in the context of the current sensory turn. It asks fundamental questions about physicality and fluidity: how were bodily fluids categorised and differentiated? How were fluids trapped inside the body perceived, and how did this perception alter when those fluids were externalised? Do ancient approaches complement or challenge our modern sensibilities about bodily fluids? How were religious practices influenced by attitudes towards bodily fluids, and how did religious authorities attempt to regulate or restrict their appearance? Why were some fluids taboo, and others cherished? In what ways were bodily fluids gendered? Offering a range of scholarly approaches and voices, this volume explores how ideas about the body and the fluids it contained and externalised are culturally conditioned and ideologically determined. The analysis encompasses the key geographic centres of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt. By taking a longue durée perspective across a richly intertwined set of territories, this collection is the first to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging study of bodily fluids in the ancient world. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity will be of particular interest to academic readers working in the fields of classics and its reception, archaeology, anthropology, and ancient to Early Modern history. It will also appeal to more general readers with an interest in the history of the body and history of medicine. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.


The Re/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids

The Re/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids

Author: Paul Spinrad

Publisher: Juno Books

Published: 1999-08

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This provocative and renowned guide sparks a radical rethinking of our relationship with our bodies and nature, humourously (and seriously) spanning the gamut of everything you ever wanted to know about bodily functions and excreta. Each function is discussed from a variety of viewpoints: scientific, anthropological, historical, mythological, sociological and artistic.