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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