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THE STORY BEHIND LIGHT’S CRITERIA - Toraks
THE STORY BEHIND light 'S CRITERIA . Richard W. light , Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee, USA. e-mail: When I was an intern in medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospi- I submitted a proposal to the Institutional Review Board tal in Baltimore Maryland in 1968-1969, there was a period and received their approval. The blood gas machine was in where I had a large percentage of patients who had a pleu- the pulmonary function laboratory and I could measure all ral effusion. The chief resident, Dr. Richard Winterbauer, the pleural uid blood gases myself. The clinical laboratory would make rounds about midnight and would always ask would measure the protein, LDH, and glucose in the se- me what the thoracentesis revealed. At that time we would rum and pleural uid without charge.
THE STORY BEHIND LIGHT’S CRITERIA Over a two year period I studied over 150 pleural effu-sions. I submitted an abstract of my preliminary fi ndings to
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