Product Description
This thoroughly updated 5th Edition provides concise and carefully structured full-color instruction in the handling and analysis of non-blood body fluids.Readers will learn how to handle and preserve the integrity of body fluid specimens and how to keep themselves and their 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 them and their 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.The body fluids chapters are expanded to include additional anatomy, physiology, and recent advances in testing. It provides 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. It uses case studies and clinical situations to promote problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. It features more than 175 full-color slides of urine, cerebrospinal, seminal, synovial, and serous fluids, positioned close to the related text. It reviews renal physiology and renal function testing. It offers comprehensive discussions of the physical, chemical, and microscopic analyses of urine. It covers quality assurance and management, including requirements of accrediting agencies. It uses procedure and summary boxes for quick reference. It includes a comprehensive discussion of current instrumentation in the urinalysis laboratory.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 5 reviews)

body fluids by Veronica Loucks (USA)

4 Stars
June 27, 2009
Very nice book. Easy to understand and take along to class. It could use a few more microscope pictures, but overall an excellent product. Very informative, and gives you what you need. Well organized too.

Great buy! by lreustsh

5 Stars
February 11, 2009
This book has been a great resource for class and is very helpful in its explanations.

Well written with great pictures by Fleur de Lys (Weirton, WV USA)

4 Stars
February 12, 2006
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 were great.

More fun than a barrel of acne remover. by medlabtech

4 Stars
April 24, 2003
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 in your UA class!

Great Book on Urinalysis and Body Fluids! by Gail Willis (Baltimore, MD USA)

5 Stars
January 16, 2001
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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