Medicine

Laboratory Diagnostics: Urinalysis

Lab diagnostics exists at the crossroads of chemistry and medicine. Doctors use a variety of physical and chemical tests to identify different diseases. This box gives students the opportunity to perform urinalysis for 4 different "patients."

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You will:

  • familiarize yourself with special urinalysis containers
  • perform density and color tests on artificial urine
  • measure the protein and glucose levels of the samples
  • identify crystals in the residue

You will learn:

  • how glucose and protein tests are used to screen for diabetes
  • what data simple physical examinations can provide
  • how urinalysis can detect a wide range of disorders and how to manage them

Experiments

Sediment analysis

Color and turbidity

Density

Protein analysis

Glucose analysis

Test strips

Patient: Samantha Wilson

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