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Said: : "  This is the Siemens response to using the hCG cassette on the Clinitek Status- They go to 1.003 Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain ...

Said: : "We report a SG with all urine hCG in our main lab, but not POC. I did a study one time at my facility with regard to low SG and had an incidence rate of about 10% for urines with S.G. 1.010. Given that, I dropped the SG requirement with...

Said: : "We use the Cardinal SP brand urine preg kits performed by nursing. At my previous institution we required a urine specific gravity with every urine preg, and any result below 1.010 had to be canceled and a serum preg sent to lab for a qua...

Said: : "Hello. We use a Nitrazine pH paper test for amniotic fluid, waived testing. QC used is FisherBuffer Solution (pH4 and pH7). The original bottles are large in size so we share with main lab. We aliquot and parcel out to sites that require ...