
68-1
68.1 Introduction
e study of blood and its eects on sustaining life dates back to the start of understanding human anatomy.
e
re
is a di
verse
ba
ckground
as
sociated
wi
th
bl
ood
ch
emistry,
an
d
kn
owledge
of th
e
ma
keup
an
d
pu
rpose
of bl
ood
an
d
it
s
co
mponents
is gr
owing
by le
aps
an
d
bo
unds
. e ty
pical
di
scussion
an
d
his
tory
of bl
ood
ch
emistry
re
late
to ox
ygen
tr
ansport
an
d
it
s
e
ects
. i
s
ch
apter
wi
ll
de
al
ma
inly
wi
th
th
e
me
asurement
of
ox
ygen
re
lated
to he
alth
an
d
cr
itical-care
ap
plications,
wi
th
li
mited
de
scriptions
of no
ncritical
he
alth
st
a-
tus measurements. e beginning of blood analysis and the measurement of a person’s health status