Random or 24 hour urine collection

24 Hour Urine Collections:
1. To begin collection, empty the bladder and discard this urine. Record this time and date as the start of the collection.
2. 24 hour urine collections should be started Sunday through Thursday.
3. Collect all urine excreted during the next 24 hours in the urine collection container.
4. Exactly 24 hours after the collection was begun, empty the bladder for the last time. Add this urine to the 24 hour urine container. The collection is finished.
5. The container should be refrigerated during and after the 24 hour collection period until it can be brought to Saint Luke’s Regional Laboratories.

Frozen - 1 year
Refrigerated - 7 days
Room temperature - 3 days

83605 - D-Lactate Random or 24 HR Urine (EAP 30021323)
81050 - Urine Volume Measurement (if 24 hr urine collection) (EAP 30033360)