Patient Urine Sample.
I was sent on a rather interesting errand today. My coworker and I embarked on another delivery trip. Our destinations were the blood bank and the blood lab. Yes, there are differences between the two locations. As I’ve explained in an earlier entry, the blood bank is the place to go to when you need to retrieve certain aspects of the patient’s blood: platelets, red blood cells, and the like. We went there to return a pack of red blood platelets because a consent form was not signed. What piqued my interest the most about our trip was our delivery item to the blood lab: urine. Blood samples are only one of the many things that are examined at the blood lab. Specimen samples such as urine, mucous, and much to my chagrin, even feces are brought to be analyzed for sepsis and other complications. Most of the time these samples, for sanitary purposes, are transported through a tube system very much like the drive through system when you withdraw from a bank. The samples are placed in these well padded, tube-like containers and with the push of the right combination of buttons; your sample is shipped without the tedious walk downstairs.
Tube Transport System.
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