CM Names Flashcards
Wrote a book in “uroscopy”
Hippocrates 5th century
Made the first description of HEMATURIA as the presence of blood in urine
Rufus of Ephesus (50 AD)
One of the founders of the origins of nephrology
Isaac Judaeus (900 AD)
Detailed the concepts of urine formation, urinary sediments, and urine characteristics in relation to diseases
Book Kitab al Baul (Book of Urine) by Isaac Judaeus (900 AD)
Physicians concentrated their efforts very intensively on the art of uroscopy, receiving instruction in urine examination as part of their training
Middle ages
Involves the performance of scientific analysis on body fluids
other than blood
Clinical Microscopy
Most readily available and easily collected indicator of the body’s many metabolic functions. (Hint: SSSSAU)
Seminal fluid
Spinal fluid
Serous fluids
Synovial fluid
Amniotic fluid
URINE
Meaning of CLSI
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
Defines urinalysis as “the testing
of urine with procedures commonly performed in an expeditious, reliable, accurate, safe, and cost-effective manner.”
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
In _____ Color charts had been developed that described the significance of ___ different colors (Hint: numbers)
1140
20
Chemical testing of urine involved _______ testing and _______ testing for glucose
“ant testing” and “taste testing”
Charlatans without medical credentials
Pisse prophets
Published a book that exposed the scam offered by the “pisse prophets”
Thomas Bryant (1627)
Inspired the passing of the first medical licensure laws in England
Thomas Bryant (1627)
Introduced the gravimetric analysis of urine by weighing a number of 24-hour urine specimens. No significant conclusions were derived from his measurements.
Jean Baptiste van Helmont
Discovered albuminuria by boiling urine; Observed that proteins in the urine precipitated when boiled with acetic acid
Frederik Dekker (1694)
First attempt to standardize the quantitation of formed elements in urine microscopic analysis
Thomas Addis (1926)
Introduced the concept of urinalysis as part of a doctor’s routine patient examination
Richard Bright (1827)
Revealed the presence of albumin in heated urine samples
Richard Bright (1827)
Studied renal diseases and clearly established the overall correlation of edema, albumin in urine, and diseased kidneys observed after death
Richard Bright (1827)
(Y) Number and complexity of the tests performed in a urinalysis had reached a point of impracticality, and urinalysis began to disappear in routine examinations
1930s
Rescued routine urinalysis by making chemical and physical examination of urine samples easier
Reagent Strips (Urine Test Strip)
(Y) Urine test strips were first made on industrial scale and offered commercially
1950s
(Y) The company Boehringer Mannheim (today Roche) launched its first Combur
test strips
1964
