kimg Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 We are having an issue reporting out grossly blood urines. Techs tend to call everything "indeterminate" which I feel is unacceptable. We have, in the past, been taught to put a drop of urine on a glass slide with a coverslip but then there is the problem of quantitating. How are other labs handling this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMILLER Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 I assume you are talking about a microscopic for a urinalysis? If a urine is grossly bloody, we add a drop of lysing agent from our hema analyzer (weak HCl) to a few drops urine and look for casts. crystals, etc. In some cases we simply would state present or absent since even semi-quantification on an unspun specimen would be meaningless. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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