Urine is more than a natural waste product—it can provide a wealth of information about an individual’s overall health, and urinalysis is one of the oldest diagnostic tests in existence. Its use has been dated as far back as Mesopotamia and ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote extensively about the use of urinalysis in diagnosing disease in the 6th century BCE.
Today, urinalysis can be used to detect a number of diseases and ailments including urinary tract infections, kidney disease, diabetes, and bladder cancer.
In this episode, Will Hutt, Head of Primary Care, Acute Rapid & Decentralized Urinalysis at Siemens Healthineers, is joined by Nancy Brunzel, a medical laboratory scientist and author of the book Fundamentals of Urine and Body Fluid Analysis and Jon Stradinger, director of assay development for point of care at Siemens Healthineers. We’ll also hear from two experts interviewed for Siemens Healthineers’ recent five-part docuseries about the history of urinalysis: Medical Author and Educator Connie Mardis and Kelly St. Vrain, the head of marketing operations for diagnostics at Siemens Healthineers. They’re discussing the current state of urinalysis, where it could go in the future, and what it all means for the overall patient experience.
Watch Siemens Healthineers’ five-part docuseries Urine, A Liquid Lens into Your Health
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
• Urinalysis is cost-effective and non-invasive—two reasons it is such a popular diagnostic tool.
• Urinalysis can play an integral role in the early detection of serious diseases.
• Advances in urinalysis such as automated test strip readers have brought new innovations in the consistency and quality control of the test.
• There is a lot of potential for the role that artificial intelligence may come to play in interpreting the data of urinalysis results.
• Urinalysis has existed for millennia, but it will remain an invaluable tool in healthcare.
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