The primary pigment responsible for normal urine color is:
Urochrome
Average daily volume of urine produced by an adult is:
1200 mL
Which of the following CDC guidelines considers all moist body substances to be potentially infectious and stresses hand washing?
Standard Precautions
What is the normal pH of urine?
1.005
Urine sediment with increased WBCs should also be looked at carefully for what?
Bacteria
What color urine might come from a patient with Pseudomonas infection?
Green
Before analysis, what must you do to a urine that was stored in a refrigerator?
Allow it to come to room temperature
What is the acronym to remember when using a fire extinguisher?
PASS
Point
Aim
Squeeze
Sweep
What must you do with a new bottle of strips before you complete any patient testing?
Run QC
Name one of the 2 ways you can differentiate between yeast and RBCs
1. Look for budding yeast
2. Add acetic acid to lyse the RBCs
A urine specimen is diluted 1:2 and then the specific gravity reads 1.030. What is the ACTUAL specific gravity?
1.060
What is it called when a patient is frequently urinating at night?
Nocturia
Exposure to a carcinogen is an example of what type of hazard?
Chemical
Which positive dipstick test is most closely associated with renal disease?
Protein
What crystal normally looks like an envelope, but another form could look like a dumbbell?
Calcium oxalate
A patient diagnosed with diabetes insipidus will produce urine with ______ volume and ________ specific gravity
Increased volume and decreased specific gravity.
↓ ADH effect → collecting ducts stay relatively impermeable to water → water stays in the tubular fluid → water is excreted
What is the primary cause of changes that happen in unpreserved urine?
Bacterial Growth
Laboratory equipment and other inanimate objects serve as what in the chain of infection?
Resevoir
What analyte is measured using the "error of indicators" as the principle reaction?
Protein
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A urine with the same specific gravity as the ultrafiltrate is called
Isosthenuric
(iso- means same)
What type of preservation would you expect in a urine that shows large amounts of amorphous material?
Refrigeration
Name 3 things that are required before we start a lab
1. Hair back
2. Lab coat
3. No food or drinks
4. Closed toed shoes
5. Long pants (no holes)
6. Gloves
You have a sample that is positive for ketones, but negative for glucose. What is one symptom that might cause these results?
Starvation, Keto diet, excessive exercise
Which of the following cells found in increased numbers in the urine sediment is only indicative of nephron damage?
Renal Tubular