Lab medicine Flashcards
What is the definition of sensitivity ?
Sensitivity is defined as the proportion of the people with the target disease who test positive.
A sensitive test is used to ?
exclude or rule out the disease
How to mathematically calculate sensitivity ?
TP/ TP+ FN
Specificity is defined as ?
Specificity is the proportion of people WITHOUT the target Disease that have a NEGATIVE blood test.
A specific test is used to ?
A specific test is used for ruling in a disease, as it rarely misclassifies those WITHOUT a disease as being sick
How to mathematically calculate specificity ?
TN/ TN+ FP
definition of positive predictive value
Positive Predictive Value (PPV) is the proportion of those with a POSITIVE test that have the target disease in a population.
Mathematical estimation of positive predictive value ?
TP / TP+FP
Definition of negative predictive value ?
Negative Predictive Value (NPV) is the proportion of those with a NEGATIVE blood test that do not have the target disease in a population.
Mathematical estimation of negative predictive value ?
TN/TN+FN
What is the limitation of predictive values?
The positive and negative predictive values are specific to the population in questions. Therefore, comparison of predictive values with an incongruent population will be meaningless.
What are the types of Urine Studies
- Rapid urine test (dipstick)
- Urinalysis
- Urine culture
- 24-Hr urine collection
- Urine drug screen / urine toxicology screen
- Pregnancy test
What are the components of Urine dipstick ?
- pH – dehydration, diabetes, infection, acid/base d/o, kidney disease
- Specific gravity - dehydration
- Glucose - diabetes
- Ketone - diabetes
- Nitrite - infection
- Leukocytes - infection
- Protein – kidney disease, diabetes, HTN
- Blood – kidney disease, infection, stones, prostate dz, bladder dz/CA
- Bilirubin – liver disease, gall bladder disease
- Urobilinogen – liver disease, haemolytic anaemia
What are the steps of urinalysis ?
- Gross inspection
- test strip
- Microscopy
Gross inspection looks for
- Color
*Turbidity - Odour
Purpose of urinalysis ?
To look for microbes, urine casts in the context of kidney disease and infections, to look for crystals and creatinine.
What is the definition of urine specific gravity ?
USG is defined as the ratio between the density of urine and the density of an equal volume of pure distilled water.
Normal urine specific gravity ?
1.016 to 1.022
Normal urine volume ?
1000 to 1600 ML/Day
Oliguria
< 500 cc/day
Anuria
<100 cc /day
Polyuria
> 2500 to 3000 cc/day