PRELIM LEC: INTRODUCTION TO URINALYSIS Flashcards
Wrote a book on “uroscopy”
Hippocrates
– Urine Color charts had been developed
– Chemical testing progressed from “ant testing” and “taste testing” for glucose
1140 CE
Discover Albuminuria by boiling the urine
Frederik Dekkers (1694)
- Published the book “Pisse Prophets”
Thomas Bryant (1627)
Thomas Bryant (1627)
* - Invention of the microscope
* - Led to the examination of urinary sediment
17 centuries
Developed the method for quantitating the microscope sediment
Thomas Addis
Introduced the concept of urinalysis as part of a doctor’s routine patient examination
Richard Bright (1827)
Began to disappear from routine examination.
1930s
2 unique characteristics of urine specimen
- Urine is a readily available and easy collected specimen
- Urine contains information, w/c can be obtained by inexpensive laboratory tests, about many of the body’s major metabolic functions.
Defines urinalysis as “the testing of urine with procedures commonly performed in an expeditious, reliable, accurate, safe, and cost effective manner.”
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
Fountain of information
URINE
Liquid tissue biopsy of the urinary tract
URINE
Tests need to be carefully performed and properly controlled
URINE
Painlessly obtained (EASY)
URINE
Yields a great deal of information quickly and economically
URINE
The _______ continuously form ______as an ultrafiltrate of plasma.
kidneys; urine
Reabsorption of water and filtered substances essential to body function converts approximately ______of filtered plasma to the daily urine output of 1200 mL
170,000 mL
Urine consist of ____and other organic and inorganic chemicals dissolved in water
urea
Urine is normally _____ water and ______ solutes
95%; 5%
These solutes can occur owing to the influence of factors such as:
dietary intake, physical activity, body metabolism and endocrine functions
Other substances found in urine include:
hormones, vitamins and medications
May contain formed elements, such as:
cells, casts, crystals, mucus and
bacteria (increase amount is often
indicative of disease)
Diagnosis and management of renal or urinary tract diseases
EXAMINATION OF URINE
Detection of metabolic or systemic diseases not directly related to the kidney
EXAMINATION OF URINE
MEDICAL INFORMATION-physiologic and structural disorders of the kidney and the urinary
tract
EXAMINATION OF URINE
Elevated formed elements in urine may indicate?
disease
The normal odor of freshly voided urine is_____ due to volatile acids
faintly aromatic
is a major body constituent
Water
Factors that influence urine volume
include:
fluid intake, fluid loss from nonrenal sources, variations in the secretion of antidiuretic hormone and need to excrete dissolved solids
Main determinant of urine volume is
water
Normal range (24h) daily urine output is usually
600-2000mL
Average volume (24hrs)
1200-1500 mL
Maintain fluid in the body
Anti-diuretic hormone (vasopressin)
acceptable urine containers:
disposable containers should be used
clean/sterile
dry
leak-proof
screw-top lids
wide mouth
clear
50ml capacity
Bacteriologic examination is done first if
requested
Normal night urine volume:
<400 mL
Urine less than the standard volume requirement is acceptable only for following cases:
acute renal failure
pediatric patient
gastric patient
OLIGURIA CAN CAUSE
DEHYDRATION