This thoroughly updated 5th Edition provides you with concise and carefully structured full-color instruction in the handling and analysis of non-blood body fluids. You will learn how to handle and preserve the integrity of body fluid specimens and how to keep yourself and your laboratory safe from infectious agents! 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. All of the urinalysis chapters conform to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and CAP regulations. Study questions at the end of each chapter, now in multiple-choice format, to emulate questions on the national ASCP examination. Body fluids chapters expanded to include additional anatomy, physiology, and recent advances in testing Significantly enhanced coverage of body fluids, amniotic fluid, feces, CSF, and metabolic diseases, particularly in the areas of anatomy and physiology, function, and recent advances in testing Updates on urinalysis automation in an appendix. Better tables and charts. More full-color slides. Uses case studies and clinical situations to promote problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Discusses the safety precautions needed to guard against hazards related to urine and body fluid analyses. Features more than 175 full-color slides of urine, cerebrospinal, seminal, synovial, and serous fluids, positioned close to the related text. Reviews renal physiology and renal function testing. Offers comprehensive discussions of the physical, chemical,

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Well written with great pictures:

This book is well written and has nicely detailed pictures of microscopic urines. I have a few complaints about how concise it is in certain sections. It was too brief when explaining the most often examined urine elements. I think that expanded explanations should have been included with bilirubin, urobilinogen, protein, etc. The explanation of the Ehrlich reaction in particular left me stumped. One or two more sentences would have made it clear.
The section on crystals was well done and the pictures... more info

More fun than a barrel of acne remover.:

As textbooks go, this one is pretty good. I should warn you- pay close attention to every detail in the book. This book is not for the faint of heart- there is no fluff. Every detail counts, every fact is important. You won't find any extranneous words in this book. On a more upbeat note, the book is pretty self-explanatory. If your instructor doesn't do the best job instructing, ignore him/her (but don't tell them I said that) and just read the book- it does a very good job explaining things. Best of luck... more info

Great Book on Urinalysis and Body Fluids!:

This a really great textbook about Urinalysis. It's in a clear concise easily understandable format. It also is illustrated throughout with photographs. This makes it easy for you to recognize things when you look under the microscope.

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