This book is the second edition of a new standard text and reference dealing with body
water and solutes. The approach is comprehensive. As a subject, fluid and electrolyte …

This book is the seventh in a series reporting seminars or symposia on current topics offered
by the Division of Continuing Education in Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of …

This review also appears in the Trop. Dis. Bull., 1962, v. 59, August.] This book is based on a
postgraduate course in fluid and electrolytes at the University of California, and it is obvious …

Serious disturbances of fluid and electrolyte balance are frequently encountered in acutely
ill patients; somewhat less often in the chronically sick. There seems to be a trend for such …

FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE BALANCE 1585 the cortex are nephrons with long loops and a
vascular bed of low peripheral resistance. This might permit the kidney to expose glomerular …

1. To treat a patient with a disturbance of electrolyte and water metabolism the following
should be determined: What is the state of hydration? What is the state of kidney function …

Dr. Homer Smith20 has deftly summarized the role of the kidneys in regulating fluid and
electrolyte balance, by saying that the composition and volume of blood and the internal …

THE importance of the mechanisms preserving the constancy of the" milieu interieur," as
Claude Bernard described the fluid bathing the tissue cells, has long been appreciated by …

This multiauthored text is divided into two sections. The first section consists of 10 chapters.
These chapters deal with the diagnosis and management of fluid, electrolyte, and acid or …