Creatinine levels in drug testing..... Ans. Most common causes of creatinine elevation are kidney disease, diets high in meats and certain medications, especially some antibiotics. However, the readings you relay are so grotesquely out of range (10-50 times the high end of abnormal) that they should have been either cited as a critical lab finding or thrown out and repeated because, if the patient is not deathly iil, then these results are apparently lab errors. The dilute specimen finding makes no sense in the contex of the other, wildly out of range readings, and even this level would be difficult to achieve via dilution to skew the test results. The only explanation I can think of is that this lab is using some obscure or outdated scale, or is incompetent. Anyone with findings such as those of your client would normally be place on dialysis if it werent too late already. Wish I could be more helpful, but this really doesnt make much sense. I can only suggest the possible assignment of a different lab. Hope this is helpful. John Kenyon, EMT, CCT Non-invasive cardiology tech, Emergency and Critical Care technician, Critical Incident Stress Mgmt. specialist
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 06:06:16 +0000
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