Saint Luke's Regional Laboratories

24 hour plastic urine container (NO PRESERVATIVE) or pour-off bottle

Entire 24 hour urine collection. Alternately, a pour-off sample from a 24 hour urine collection is acceptable but the client must measure the 24 hour urine volume and indicate the volume on the requisition.

Entire 24 hour urine collection or 20 - 25 mL (if a pour-off sample is submitted)

24 Hour Urine Collections:

1. To begin the collection, empty the bladder and discard this urine. Record this time and date as the start of the collection. The starting and ending times of collection are required.
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. Avoid contact with metal during the collection.
6. The container should be refrigerated during and after the 24 hour collection period until it can be brought to Saint Luke’s Regional Laboratories.

Refrigerated

81050 - Urine Volume Measurement (EAP 30033360)
84133 - Potassium Urine Quant 24 Hour (EAP 30014380)

Monday through Sunday

ISE indirect