What is it about?

If you use urine containers with preservatives for cells, question: Could you use it for other usual chemical parameters? Answer: yes (for albumin and protein)

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Why is it important?

1. The centralization of laboratory services brings as consecuence the increasing use of digital microscopes for urinalysis and delays the analysis. Then it´s necesary containers with preservatives for cells, mainly. 2. No papers concerning to its double use: cell identification and chemical analysis. 3. We use widely distributed machines. 4. Consecuence: Many professionals involved. 5. Consecuence: No alicuotation.

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Read it. It´s very useful and easy to repeat if you want.

M.S.Chem., Ph.D., EuSpLM. Santiago A. Lojo Rocamonde
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela

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This page is a summary of: Validation of the “Vacutainer® urinalysis preservative plus urine tube” for the determination of albumin and protein, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-1033.
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