Question

Use the information in Table 12.1 of your lab manual (also om Side 20 in Lab 11 Power Point) what diagnosis would you suggest to a physician if you were a laboratory technician and received information from a patient's urinalysis that showed the urine had a pH of 3.2 and there were traces of ketone in the urine? (you can only suggest ONE possible cause)

Answer 1

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