Sentences with phrase «of urine specimens»

Students will also practice proper collection, care, and handling of urine specimens.

(c) If you are operating a collection site, you must have all necessary personnel, materials, equipment, facilities and supervision to provide for the collection, temporary storage, and shipping of urine specimens to a laboratory, and a suitable clean surface for writing.

The editorial authors suggest that while the existing test can likely be improved by emphasizing pre-analytical care of urine specimens, there may be limitations to urine testing of peptide hormones that will be difficult to ever overcome.

Not exact matches

Then, under the direction of Assistant Veterinarian George Dickinson, an attempt was made to get a urine specimen.

Each specimen is labeled and numbered — a white tag with a number, followed by the letter S for the saliva samples, and a yellow tag with a number and the letter U for the bottles of urine.

Importantly, for the first time, we can use urine specimens for one - step screening and diagnosing of HCV infection,» said Hu, professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at UC Irvine School of Medicine.

The PURE study provides new evidence about the association of sodium and potassium intake — estimated from morning urine specimens — with blood pressure, death and major cardiovascular events.

Positive tests were covered up by lab workers, and blood and urine samples from athletes who were using banned performance - enhancing drugs (PEDs) were secretively swapped out for «clean» specimens, with the help of state intelligence agents.

Conduct quantitative spot urine protein testing (preferably using a first morning urine specimen) at baseline and prior to each dose of SPINRAZA.

At that time, they provided a urine specimen (for measurement of creatinine and urea to determine dietary compliance), were weighed, and had their blood pressure and total percent glycated hemoglobin measured.

I remember having a fasting 6 - hour glucose - tolerance test almost twenty years ago; the test (for those unacquainted with it) consists of the patient fasting for 12 hours, then having a blood sample drawn & a urine specimen taken, then drinking a syrup containing 75 g of glucose.

For example, you may not test a DOT urine specimen for additional drugs, and a laboratory is prohibited from making a DOT urine specimen available for a DNA test or other types of specimen identity testing.

(c) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, you must not perform any tests on DOT urine or breath specimens other than those specifically authorized by this part or DOT agency regulations.

DOT agency regulations, the DOT Urine Specimen Collecxtion Procedures Guidelines, and other materials are available from ODAPC (Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington DC, 20590, 202 — 366 — 3784, or on the ODAPC web site (http://www.transportation.gov/odapc).

-- If the employee ultimately fails to provide a sufficient amount of urine during the remaining time, the collector discontinues the collection, discards any specimen the employee previously provided, appropriately documents the CCF, and immediately notifies the DER and the MRO — following the requirements at § 40.193 (b)(4) and (b)(5).

(7) There is an insufficient amount of urine in the primary bottle for analysis, unless the specimens can be redesignated (see paragraph (h) of this section).

(a) Specimen validity testing is the evaluation of the specimen to determine if it is consistent with normal humaSpecimen validity testing is the evaluation of the specimen to determine if it is consistent with normal humaspecimen to determine if it is consistent with normal human urine.

On June 25, 2008, the Department issued a Final Rule amending, among other provisions, paragraph (b) of our section pertaining to urine specimen collections.

The Department of Transportation is amending certain provisions of its drug and alcohol testing procedures to change instructions to collectors, laboratories, medical review officers, and employers regarding adulterated, substituted, diluted, and invalid urine specimen results.

(i) The primary specimen appears to have leaked out of its sealed bottle and the laboratory believes a sufficient amount of urine exists in the split specimen to conduct all appropriate primary laboratory testing; or

(b) You must comply with applicable provisions of the HHS Guidelines concerning accessioning and processing urine drug specimens.

(c) As the DER, when the collector informs you that the employee has not provided a sufficient amount of urine (see paragraph (b)(4) of this section), you must, after consulting with the MRO, direct the employee to obtain, within five days, an evaluation from a licensed physician, acceptable to the MRO, who has expertise in the medical issues raised by the employee's failure to provide a sufficient specimen.

(3) If the employee refuses to make the attempt to provide a new urine specimen or leaves the collection site before the collection process is complete, you must discontinue the collection, note the fact on the «Remarks» line of the CCF (Step 2), and immediately notify the DER.

May a DOT urine specimen be obtained via catheterization from a patient who is catheterized as part of a medical procedure or who is unconscious?

(2) You, not the employee, must first pour at least 30 mL of urine from the collection container into one specimen bottle, to be used for the primary specimen.

(2) Urge the employee to drink up to 40 ounces of fluid, distributed reasonably through a period of up to three hours, or until the individual has provided a sufficient urine specimen, whichever occurs first.

(a) As a laboratory, you must retain all records pertaining to each employee urine specimen for a minimum of two years.

(b) For purposes of this subpart, a verified positive DOT drug test result, a DOT alcohol test with a result indicating an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or greater, a refusal to test (including by adulterating or substituting a urine specimen) or any other violation of the prohibition on the use of alcohol or drugs under a DOT agency regulation constitutes a DOT drug and alcohol regulation violation.

(2) To meet this burden in the case of a substituted specimen, the employee must demonstrate that he or she did produce or could have produced urine through physiological means, meeting the creatinine concentration criterion of less than 2 mg / dL and the specific gravity of less than or equal to 1.0010 or greater than or equal to 1.0200 (see § 40.93 (b)-RRB-.

As an employer, where do I find a list of qualified service agents (e.g. urine specimen collectors, BATs, STTs, MROs, SAPs, or laboratories)?

Urine Specimen Collection Guidelines for the U.S. Department of Transportation Workplace Drug Testing Programs

One of the reasons could be that you just don't like to get stuck with a needle in the arm to draw blood and you would rather not pee in a bottle to give a urine specimen.

Home Office Urine Specimen (HOS): A full - screen urine test that an insurance company may require of applicants during the underwriting proUrine Specimen (HOS): A full - screen urine test that an insurance company may require of applicants during the underwriting prourine test that an insurance company may require of applicants during the underwriting process.

- Properly package, handle, and store laboratory specimens and carry out diagnostic analysis of laboratory specimens including blood, urine, feces, tissue, and bodily fluids.

Properly package, handle, and store laboratory specimens and carry out diagnostic analysis of laboratory specimens including blood, urine, feces, tissue, and bodily fluids.

Once parameters like urine - specific gravity (concentration), pH (acid - base balance), ketones, glucose (sugar in the urine), bilirubin (a breakdown product of blood), blood, and protein are measured, the urine specimen is placed into a centrifuge and spun for a specific period of time at a specific number of revolutions per minute.

The UPCR test compares the amount of protein found in your pet's urine to the amount of creatinine found in the urine specimen.

Urine specimens from cats with FLUTD may show a variety of abnormal findings, such as the presence of red blood cells, white blood cells, bacteria or crystals.

When urine, blood cultures, and serology have not identified a cause, CT or fluoroscopy - guided fine - needle aspiration of the infected disc space may be performed under general anesthesia, or a surgical biopsy specimen from the lesion can be obtained for culture.

Blood cultures in dogs yield positive results in about 45 % to 75 % of cases, and urine cultures are positive in about 25 % to 50 % of cases.1 Serologic testing for Brucella antibody and Aspergillus antigen may be performed.5 Cerebral spinal fluid analysis is often normal, but increased protein concentration (albuminocytologic dissociation) or a neutrophilic pleocytosis is occasionally observed.1 When urine, blood cultures, and serology have not identified a cause, CT or fluoroscopy - guided fine - needle aspiration of the infected disc space may be performed under general anesthesia, or a surgical biopsy specimen from the lesion can be obtained for culture.

You veterinarian will centrifuge the urine specimen and examine the sediment that forms on the bottom of the tube.

When you veterinarian asks you to bring a specimen of your cat or dog's urine for analysis (urinalysis); looking under the microscope for objects and things that shouldn't be there is a very important part of the process.

Suspects who scored no more than 50 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath had been given a statutory right to ask for the breath specimens to be substituted for a specimen of blood or urine.

The Crown Prosecution Service later applied (later than six months after the date of offence) to amend the charge to one of failing to provide a specimen of urine.

Another example of doubts about culpability is people who have been arrested on suspicion of a driving offence but were unable to provide a specimen of breath, urine or blood owing to various phobia: did they «refuse to provide» or were they unable to do so?

Home Office Urine Specimen (HOS): A full - screen urine test that an insurance company may require of applicants during the underwriting proUrine Specimen (HOS): A full - screen urine test that an insurance company may require of applicants during the underwriting prourine test that an insurance company may require of applicants during the underwriting process.

However, should one be needed for your application, it will be administered for Protective Life by ExamOne and will consist of a blood and urine specimen collection, height and weight measurement, and blood pressure reading.

You can drink coffee the morning of, this will give you some ammunition for the HOS - Home Office Specimen (Urine Sample) that they will need.

The exam usually includes a urine and blood specimen, blood pressure reading, a series of questions regarding your medical history, including questions about your health and lifestyle, and height and weight measurements.

Unless you choose the «no exam» route in your life insurance purchase, a path that will cost you dearly for the 30 minutes you save, an application will involve an examination that will include a set of lab results that come from blood and urine specimens.