Enter the classroom or laboratory with confidence.This popular, reader-friendly text delivers the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to handle and analyze urine and non-blood body fluids and to keep you and your laboratory safe from infectious agents.
You'll find new information and new testing procedures that are important in this rapidly changing field. Case studies, clinical situations, and study questions both enhance your learning experience and help you develop the critical thinking skills necessary to master this exacting science.
The urinalysis chapters conform to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and Cap regulations.
Study Questions at the end of each chapter are in multiple-choice format to simulate questions on the national certification exam.
Expanded body fluids chapters include additional anatomy, physiology, and recent advances in testing.