$14.95 inc GST
Many urine abnormalities never show up on a dipstick or to the naked eye. Anneka Pierzga shows you how to prepare and examine urine sediment, and what the cells, casts and crystals you find might mean.
Includes the full recording (1 hour 18 minutes), the presentation slides as a PDF, and a quiz. Pass the quiz to receive a certificate worth 1 AVNAT point.
The microscopic sediment exam is where a urinalysis often gives up its most useful findings. Part 3 of Urine the Know gives you the technique and the identification skills to find them.
You’ll review the three parts of a complete urinalysis and the purpose of the sediment exam, then learn how to prepare a sediment sample properly: examining specimens while fresh, centrifuging 5 to 10 mL of well mixed urine, pouring off the supernatant, resuspending the pellet and setting up the slide. A microscope refresher covers lowering the condenser and closing the iris diaphragm, scanning at 10x and then 40x, and adjusting the fine focus as you go.
You’ll then work through what you might see: hyaline, granular, cellular and waxy casts; red and white blood cells; bacteria and fungi; transitional, squamous and renal tubular epithelial cells; crystals including struvite, calcium oxalate dihydrate and monohydrate, ammonium urate and bilirubin; and artefacts and other findings such as air bubbles, glove powder, fibres, sperm and amorphous crystals.
Presented by Anneka Pierzga, BA (Biology), AAS (MLT), MLT (ASCP), RVN, TAA.
What’s included
- Full recording (1 hour 18 minutes)
- Presentation slides as a PDF
- Quiz, with a certificate worth 1 AVNAT point when you pass
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