Urinalysis and Body Fluids » (5th Edition)

Strasinger, Susan King, DA, MT (ASCP) (Northern Virginia Community Coll)

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.

Mark A. Jandreski

This third edition is an informative and educational medical technology publication regarding the analysis of urine and body fluids other than blood and serum. Previous editions were published in 1985 and 1989. The objective is to ""provide the reader with a concise, comprehensive, and carefully structured introduction to the analysis of nonblood body fluids."" The medical literature is sorely lacking in good clinical educational materials that focus on the analysis of urine and other nonblood body fluids, and those that are available do not offer the study questions and examinations that are in this book. Also, with newer tests and research information becoming available at an ever faster pace, a new edition of this book was needed. The author does not specifically refer to a particular audience in the preface. However, I believe that this book would be well suited for medical technology students, medical students, residents, and any clinical laboratorian or clinician who must deal with the analysis of nonblood body fluids. The author appears to be a credible authority in the subject matter of this book because she is a director of a medical technology training program. The book contains many pertinent and high-quality illustrations and color photographs. The references are current and pertinent. The table of contents has been revised and is laid out very well as is the index, which is very helpful. The overall appearance of the book is appealing, and the paperback format makes this a book that is easy to use at the lab bench. This book is well written. Clinical laboratorians will find this book a welcome update. Those who teach clinical laboratory analysis of urine and nonblood fluidswill find this book exceedingly useful because it contains study questions and a final exam. University medical center and community hospital libraries should carry this book. It should also be made readily available to individuals through all university, medical school, and science bookstores.