BIOL 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Current Collector, Antiseptic
31 Jul 2020
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Diagnostic techniques, treatments, and procedures of the urinary system. Patient should void and discard specimen, then collect all urine excreted over the next 24-hour period. At the end of the 24-hour period, the patient should void, and add this urine to the container. X-ray visualization of bladder and urethra during voiding process after the bladder has been filled with a contrast material. Using aseptic techniques, a very small, straight catheter is inserted into the bladder via the urethra to withdraw a urine specimen. Urine flows through catheter into a sterile specimen container. Collection method used to avoid contamination of the urine specimen from the microorganisms normally present on the external genitalia. Patient cleanses the external genitalia with an antiseptic wipe. Expels small amount of urine into the toilet, then collects specimen in a sterile container. Patient instructed to collect the first voided specimen of the morning.
