Background : Health care workers, as their profession require, are constantly exposed to patients, infected blood and body fluids. The main objective of this study was to determine the epidemiologic and clinical aspects of occupational exposure to patients, blood and body fluids and related factors in health care workers of Shohada Ashayer hospital. Materials and Methods: In this cross sectio...

We evaluated 230 body fluid samples, of which 131 were peritoneal effluents and 99 were other body fluids. Of these, 63 dialysates were culture positive, and 54 (85.7%) of these 63 were leukocyte esterase positive. Of 99 other body fluids, 8 were both culture positive and leukocyte esterase positive.

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of epidural bacterial filters (pore size 22nm) in the filtration of pathogenic bacteria from clear intravenous (IV) fluids. Fifty mL of sterile dextrose was mixed with a known quantity of bacteria and infused through an epidural bacterial filter by a syringe pump at a rate of 2 ml per hour for 24 hours. Cultures were done from the remaining f...

Compoundswhich interfere in the analytic determination of uric acid are referred to as “non-urate chromogens.”Ascorbic acid, when added to serum, causes a significant increase in apparent uric acid levels as determined by a carbonate-phosphotungstate method. The ratio of apparent urate to ascorbicacid is 1:3, a value in close agreement with that obtained for the ratio of labile non-urate chromo...

There is a high frequency of diarrhea and vomiting in childhood. As a consequence the focus of the present review is to recognize the different body fluid compartments, to clinically assess the degree of dehydration, to know how the equilibrium between extracellular fluid and intracellular fluid is maintained, to calculate the effective blood osmolality and discuss both parenteral fluid requirm...

There is a high frequency of diarrhea and vomiting in childhood. As a consequence the focus of the present review is to recognize the different body fluid compartments, to clinically assess the degree of dehydration, to know how the equilibrium between extracellular fluid and intracellular fluid is maintained, to calculate the effective blood osmolality and discuss both parenteral fluid mainten...

In the 1960's, it was demonstrated that Treponema pallidum can persist in the lymph nodes of patients with penicillin-treated late syphilis, and that the organism can be found in aqueous humor and spinal fluid in cases of late seronegative lues as well. Research in this field obviously requires acceptable standard methods. Following a workshop on the subject held at the Center for Disease Contr...

Coarse-grained modeling of molecular fluids is often based on nonspherical convex rigid bodies like ellipsoids or spherocylinders representing rodlike or platelike molecules or groups of atoms, with site-site interaction potentials depending both on the distance among the particles and the relative orientation. In this category of potentials, the Gay-Berne family has been studied most extensive...

It is well-known that the blood properties change with seasons, and especially many reports in respect to change in water content have been made. For example, Kuroda (1) reported that the water content in blood increases in summer, while it decreases in winter. The fact can be explained by the view of Bazett (2), Sjostrand (3), Yoshimura and others (4) that the circulating blood volume, especia...