Urinalysis

Physical Testing

100

The darkest urine color is called this.

Amber

200

The color of urine might change under one of these two conditions.

Disease states + food/drugs containing pigments

300

We grade turbidity of urine with this format.

0-4+ scale

400

Fruity-smelling urine could indicate this.

Diabetes

500

List the 4 physical exam categories.

Color, turbidity, smell, foam

Chemical Testing

100

This is one of the tests on the chemical dip stick.

Leukocytes, nitrite, urobilinogen, protein, pH, blood, specific gravity, ketone, bilirubin, glucose

200

The direction you hold the dipstick after submerging it in urine.

Horizontally

300

This test on the dipstick can help indicate renal damage.

Protein

400

The blood test strip determines these two things in a urine sample.

Presence of RBCs + hemolysis/no hemolysis

500

A positive test on these TWO strips usually indicates a UTI (urinary tract infection).

Leukocytes + nitrite

Microscopic

100

A normal type of epithelial cell sometimes found in urine.

Squamous (primarily) + transitional (sometimes)

200

This is a common characteristic of yeast cells + a good identifier under the microscope.

Budding

300

Name one abnormal crystal.

Cholesterol, cystine, tyrosine, leucine

400

This is the protein that causes casts to form.

Tamm-Horsfall

500

Name one type of cast.

Hyaline, RBC, WBC, RTE, Granular, Waxy, Fatty

Specimen collection

100

Name one benefit of doing urinalysis.

Find out a lot about someone's health, inexpensive, non-invasive, fast, painless

200

This type of sample is collected a while after eating.

2-hour post prandial

300

Also known as a spot collection.

Random collection

400

Name a reason we have multiple methods to collect urine.

To best suit the patient + requirement for specific tests

500

Name the type of urine specimen we collected here.

Clean catch midstream/random collection

General Urinalysis

100

You should avoid touching the urine specimen cup to your body for this reason.

To prevent bacterial contamination

200

What instrument do we use to obtain sediment from a urine sample?

Centrifuge

300

We perform urinalysis in this order (3).

1. Physical examination

2. Chemical testing

3. Microscoping examination

400

This is the name of the commercial stain we used to stain the sediment on the microscope slide.

Sedi-Stain

500

During microscopic examination, we report quantities of 1+ to 4+. A 3+ signifies that this percentage of the field is covered with the element being quantified.

75%