A method and system of analyzing surgical and/or wound fluids from a live patient is provided. Such a system includes a medical diagnostic device, particularly one used in conjunction with wound drainage associated with general, plastic, oncologic, orthopedic, and neurological surgery utilized in conjunction with collected surgical and/or wound fluids. The ability to collect such drained surgical and/or wound fluids in a measured and uniform manner is undertaken in an effort to better understand the issues pertaining to such surgical and bodily fluids in terms of time and drainage rate to provide more effective analysis thereof than heretofore understood and undertaken.
