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01-02-2003 | Book Review
Mitchell Halperin, Marc B. Goldstein: Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base physiology—a problem-based approach, 3rd edn
Saunders, Philadelphia, 1999
Author:
Juan C. Kupferman
Published in:
Pediatric Nephrology
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Issue 2/2003
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Excerpt
In the preface of Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base physiology—a problem-based approach, 3rd edn, the authors state ″... our commitment is to learn by understanding....″ That is definitely the philosophy of this book. The authors attempt to bring the basic science to the bedside, stressing the relevant information from physiology and biochemistry to explain the clinical disorders and make their therapy obvious. I think they have succeeded enormously well. …