We detected a significant amount of SO2 released from commercially used bronchodilators, including isoproterenol (Isuprel; Breon Laboratories, Inc., New York, N. Y.), metaproterenol (Alupent; Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, Conn., or Metaprel; Dorsey Laboratories, Lincoln, Neb.), isoetharine (Bronkosol; Breon Laboratories, Inc., New York, N. Y.), and racemic epinephrine (Micronefrin; Bird Corp., Palm ...

Fertilization checks in dairy cattle performed by estimation of progesterone in milk require a simple technique, the use of a sample taken independently of milking procedure and a simple management of the results. The laboratory equipped with a sample processor and pipetting device, high throughput counter for 125iodine and a ...

When a pathologist becomes the director of a clinical laboratory, his job description changes, and most of his professional training and experience becomes incidental and largely irrelevant. This article discusses the qualities necessary for effective leadership, the various styles of management popular today, and the tools a manager must develop ...

Over a nine-month period, all patients suffering from acute gastroenteritis, with diarrhoea as an essential component, who presented to a group practice in southern England were investigated using conventional laboratory methods, and also newer techniques of electron microscopy and search for species of Campylobacter. Rotavirus and Campylobacter were the two ...

Laboratory studies were conducted to determine the efficacies of phosphine, methyl bromide, and sulfur dioxide as fumigants for the northern fowl mite, Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Canestrini and Fanzago), on inanimate objects. We were able to demonstrate that either methyl bromide or sulfur dioxide could kill all physiological forms of mites within ...

At the center of the hardware in the clinical laboratory are people, and managing these people can be difficult for the resident who has had no management experience or instruction in management skills. Last month, in the first of the two part article, the author explained how a pathologist's administrative ...

Long a neglected subject, management is increasingly recognized as a tool that allows an organization to function optimally. Because medical schools do not stress management training, the pathologist can encounter problems when immersed for the first time into the field of management. In the first of a two-part article, the ...

Wrist arthrography is an adjunctive procedure that may be valuable to the clinician. Although it is sensitive to particular abnormalities, it lacks the specificity to completely diagnose a given condition. Information gained by arthrography can be used a supportive evidence, in conjunction with clinical and laboratory findings, to aid in ...

The discipline of chemical pathology, earlier known as pathological chemistry, arose from the attempt to apply chemistry to medicine. Two main origins of the subject can be identified: the development of scientific research in medicine, and the emergence of organic chemistry and physiological chemistry. The development of clinical chemistry and ...

Workload recording as designed by the College of American Pathologists has proven to be an invaluable aid in the assessment of overall laboratory operation. The administrative information derived from the compilation of these workload statistics is utilized to provide effective and these workload statistics is utilized to provide effective and ...

In August 1979, 12 U.S. laboratory scientists visited the People's Republic of China in an attempt to introduce Chinese physicians and laboratorians to developments in laboratory medicine not yet known or understood in China. The author of this article, one of the group of visiting scientists, recounts the experience, and ...

Five pathologists from the United States visited the Soviet Union for three weeks in April 1978 to learn of the training in and the practice of pathology in that country. The major observations of the Americans were that (1) pathology is a medical specialty in the Soviet Union, with practice ...

Microsurgery requires considerable practice before any attempt is made at clinical application. Live animals represent the ideal training medium; however, unlimited access to the animal laboratory is not always possible. In such situations, segments of fresh human placenta provide ideal specimens for microsurgical practice. They are readily available and abundant ...

This article will try to point out an often over-looked tool of management that most laboratory technologists are familiar with. The laboratory technologists that suddenly find themselves as chief technologists or managers would do well to remember their bench training. Specifically, document everything you do. The article lists suggestions and ...

A compact mechanical multiposition superconducting switch, suitable for a wide variety of cryoelectronic applications, has been developed. The switch is easy to fabricate in laboratory conditions. Its design is based on principles used in normal rotary switches and offers the same ease in stacking together multiple sections.

This survey examined quality assurance practice in matched pairs of rural and urban hospital clinical laboratories. Questions directed at personnel qualifications, laboratory management, internal quality control mechanisms, and proficiency testing enrollment revealed no major differences between the rural-urban pairs. Deficiencies observed were either generic or size-related. Most laboratories were directed ...

The clinical laboratory is a melting pot of diverse scientific experiences, perspectives, and approaches, all directed to the solution of particular medical problems. Integration of separate disciplines and areas of expertise is involved at serveral different levels of laboratory medicine. At the outset, one sees that any one area of ...

A short survey of the history of ergot, of the original and, for a long time, only source of ergot alkaloids, is given. Once a dreaded poison, ergot has changed its role over the centuries to become a rich treasure house of valuable pharmaceuticals. In the Middle Ages it was ...

A survey was made of laboratory utilization in a busy group general practice for a one-month period. Approximately 10% of all patients seen in the period were referred for laboratory investigations. The majority of patients were females. Data are presented on abnormal results, laboratory area utilization and report time expectations. ...

With the availability of reliable methods for measurement of magnesium in body fluids, a great deal of information has accumulated on magnesium homeostasis. We reviewed the pertinent data on various aspects of magnesium metabolism. The conditions associated with hypo- and hypermagnesemia and the clinical and laboratory findings as well as ...

The Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, has explored various management of organizational approaches over the past seven years. The Centralized Processing Area supported by a computerized information system has evolved from these efforts. Despite a decrease in U.W. hospital usage since 1968-69, laboratory volume has steadily increased. The ...

The authors discuss the value of a practice laboratory to the equine clinician and its priorities. Laboratory examinations of particular value are described in relation to their clinical application. The need to establish normal values according to laboratory and horse population is stressed. Tables of normal parameters related to age ...

The major parasites of laboratory animals are divided into eight groups: Insects, arachnids, pentastomes, acanthocephalids, unicellular parasites (protozoan), cestodes, trematodes, and nematodes. A broad review is presented of the major characteristics that delineate each of the eight groups of laboratory animal parasites, and examples are cited of some of the ...

The effect of butanol extracts of endod against Biomphalaria choanomphala, B. pfeifferi, and Bulinus (Physopsis) nasutus was tested at different concentrations and for different exposure periods. Exposure to 19-25 ppm for 6 hours or to 6-7 ppm for 24 hours caused about 100% mortality.

The first outbreak of influenza caused by Hong Kong (H.K.) variant of type A(2) influenza virus in a general practice (3,620 persons) in Cirencester, England, lasted 13 weeks, from 15 January to 15 April 1969, and is estimated to have attacked 4% of the practice population. The epidemic was too ...

Thesis (M.T.S.C.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2005.

There are four primary effects of laboratory automation on the practice of medicine: The range of laboratory support is being greatly extended to both diagnosis and guidance of therapeutic management; the new feasibility of multiphasic periodic health evaluation promises effective health and manpower conservation in the future; and substantially lowered ...

Produced by the Ohio State University Extension, this veterinary preventive medicine fact sheet, written by Carrie L. Pickworth of the Avian Disease Investigation Laboratory, and Teresa Y. Morishita, DVM, provides information on external parasites in poultry. It looks at poultry lice, mites, flock symptoms, treatments, and a comparison chart to ...

This full-text document provides information on the regulations for the use of animals in biomedical research. It looks at the care and use of laboratory animals, the Animal Welfare Act, Public Health Service policy, good laboratory practice regulation, and Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International, Inc ...

Since the future role of Laboratory Medicine is strongly and equally challenged by economic and new technological pressures, it is essential to take a broad view of the discipline and present to the administrators and other decision-makers the full spectrum of activities and benefits Laboratory Medicine can provide. In particular, ...

Glossary of terms used in medicinal chemistry provides the 1998 Recommendations of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's (IUPAC) Chemistry and Human Health Division and Medicinal Chemistry Section. The glossary is indexed alphabetically, and an abstract and a note on the entries is provided. Made available on the ...

Although Mycobacterium leprae was identified earlier than Myco. tuberculosis, it has still not been cultured in vitro and only in 1960 was an infection obtained in laboratory animals. However, important advances have been made in the field of experimental leprosy in the last decade due to the development of new ...

THERE ARE FOUR PRIMARY EFFECTS OF LABORATORY AUTOMATION ON THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE: The range of laboratory support is being greatly extended to both diagnosis and guidance of therapeutic management; the new feasibility of multiphasic periodic health evaluation promises effective health and manpower conservation in the future; and substantially lowered ...

Since roentgenograms are merely skiagraphs and not photographs, and since they are accordingly subject to erroneous interpretations or deductions, it would seem highly desirable that courts rely upon expert analysis of them, rather than demonstration of the negatives themselves. Such practice is customary in connection with clinical laboratory work, pathology, ...

The first portion of this study describes in detail the different aspects of stool examinations, including the collection, preservation, and pooling of specimens, macroscopic and bacterioscopic examination, enrichment methods, and cultivation on a variety of solid media. The author also deals with the examination of vomits and of water. The ...

As a practical man familiar with the technique of the laboratory this author urges the need of establishing standards in laboratory practice. "This task will have to be faced in the near future," he writes, "And I believe that the A. P. H. A. is the proper organization to assume ...