BACKGROUND Chloride administration has been found to be harmful to the kidney in critically ill patients. However the association between plasma chloride concentration and renal function has never been investigated. METHODS This was a retrospective study conducted in a tertiary 24-bed intensive care unit from September 2010 to November 2012. Data on serum chloride for each patient during thei...

background: potassium citrate (k‑cit) is one of the medications widely used in patients with urolithiasis. however, in some cases with calcium oxalate (caox) urolithiasis, the significant response to alkaline therapy with k‑cit alone does not occur. there is scarce published data on the effect of magnesium chloride (mg‑cl2) on urolithiasis in pediatric patients. this study aimed to evaluate the...

Chloride analysis employing a coulometric technique is a wellestablished method. However, the equipment needed is specialized and somewhat expensive. The purpose of this paper is to report the development of the hardware and software to perform this analysis using an Apple computer to control the coulometric titration, as well as to automate it and to print out the results.The Apple computer is...

I show how mercuric thiocyanate reagent can be used in assaying serum chloride economically, rapidly, and precisely. I used a semiautomated discrete analyzer with direct concentration read-out capability but the method can easily be applied to many mechanized instruments. Linearity between concentration and color is obtained by adding appropriate amounts of mercuric nitrate to the reagent. As m...

The inactivation of thrombin by serum follows a first order kinetics with thrombin concentrations of the order of 20 to 40 units per ml. of serum. With higher thrombin concentrations of 300 to 600 units per ml. of serum, the rate slows down and not the logarithm of the clotting time, but the clotting time itself increases proportionally with the incubation time. The antithrombic factor is stabl...