Point of Care Testing (POCT) improves clinical process outcome. It has the potential to reduce errors and the wastage of resources. There is a significant amount of information obtained through the examination of urine. The routine urinalysis consists of two major components: physiochemical determination and microscopic examination of urine sediment. The physiochemical determination includes th...

Urine discoloration occurs in the intensive care unit (ICU) due to many causes such as medications, metabolic disorders, and infections. Propofol is advocated as one of the first line sedatives in the ICU, but it is not well known to the intensivists that propofol can induce urine color change. We experienced two cases of green urine after propofol infusion. Propofol should be warranted as the ...

Hydration status is linked with health, wellness, and performance. We evaluated hydration status, water intake, and urine output for seven consecutive days in healthy adults. Volunteers living in Spain, Germany, or Greece (n = 573, 39 ± 12 years (51.1% males), 25.0 ± 4.6 kg/m² BMI) participated in an eight-day study protocol. Total water intake was estimated from seven-day food and drink diarie...

Normative values and confidence intervals for the hydration indices of women do not exist. Also, few publications have precisely described the fluid types and volumes that women consume. This investigation computed seven numerical reference categories for widely used hydration biomarkers (eg, serum and urine osmolality) and the dietary fluid preferences of self-reported healthy, active women. P...

T HAS BEEN NOTED by several authors that in uropepsin determination a major proportion of the total activity is due to conversion of pepsinogen to pepsin, whereas a small proportion of the activity obtained is due to some system other than pepsin. As a result of this, in the quantitative determination of uropepsin some specimens give results which are erroneously high. Several methods for deter...

HE QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION of the urinary 17-ketosteroids in the routine laboratory still presents a number of problems. The most serious of these is the presence of nonketonic chronlogens in tile final extracts prepared by the usual extraction methods. Tile removal of these interfering substances by tile application of Girard’s reagent (1, 2) is not feasible for the routine clinical laboratory...