Understanding Normal Lab Values and Ranges

It is important to be able to recognize and identify what would be considered normal laboratory values. Now, these are going to be in a range that we would consider normal. And for some patients, they may have what's called an abnormal normal, meaning that their provider has given them particular specifics as to where their laboratory results should fall. Here, what we want to be familiar with is what is considered normal. And so we have expected ranges and the expected range for hemoglobin is going to vary from a male to a female. Here you can see that it's 13 to 18 for our males and 12 to 16 for females. So hemoglobin, we can expect to be lower, just the same as hematocrit. When we think about women experiencing menstrual cycles, there's definitely going to be a difference in the range. Hematocrit. Acrid is 42 to 52% for our males, whereas it's 36 to 48% for our females. So a tad bit lower there. And then we have what's called an erythrocyte sedimentation rate. These are our red blood cells, ESR. The male is going to be 0 to 20, our female 0 to 30. The provider may indicate to you specifics on what you would report. report back to them as far as what would be considered abnormal. But again, this is going to be our typical male and female normal lab ranges. Here we have a fasting blood glucose or an FBS 60 to 110 is what's normal. Total cholesterol less than 200. Your LDL or low density lipoprotein is going to be less than 130. HDL or high density lipoprotein greater than 40, triglycerides less than 150. And there's that PT, prothrobin time and INR. The rates for those, prothrobin or PT, 10.4 to 15.7 and INR 0.8 to 1.2. And urine, urine is going to be one of those tests that's going to give us two. variations in results. We have that term qualitative and quantitative, meaning that we will get positive and negative results, but we will also have numerical results. And this is a really good example here with a pH that falls between 4.8 and 8. Specific gravity has to do with the weight of the urine. 1.005 to 1.030 would be a normal range there. The euros 0. one to one. And then all other values here are found as a negative. So again, results in the qualitative as well as in the quantitative, numerical versus the positive or the negative reading.

Here, what we want to be familiar with is what is considered normal. And so we have expected ranges and the expected range for hemoglobin is going to vary from a male to a female. Here you can see that it's 13 to 18 for our males and 12 to 16 for females.

So hemoglobin, we can expect to be lower, just the same as hematocrit. When we think about women experiencing menstrual cycles, there's definitely going to be a difference in the range. Hematocrit.

Acrid is 42 to 52% for our males, whereas it's 36 to 48% for our females. So a tad bit lower there. And then we have what's called an erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

These are our red blood cells, ESR. The male is going to be 0 to 20, our female 0 to 30. The provider may indicate to you specifics on what you would report. report back to them as far as what would be considered abnormal. But again, this is going to be our typical male and female normal lab ranges.

Here we have a fasting blood glucose or an FBS 60 to 110 is what's normal. Total cholesterol less than 200. Your LDL or low density lipoprotein is going to be less than 130. HDL or high density lipoprotein greater than 40, triglycerides less than 150. And there's that PT, prothrobin time and INR. The rates for those, prothrobin or PT, 10.4 to 15.7 and INR 0.8 to 1.2.

And urine, urine is going to be one of those tests that's going to give us two. variations in results. We have that term qualitative and quantitative, meaning that we will get positive and negative results, but we will also have numerical results.

And this is a really good example here with a pH that falls between 4.8 and 8. Specific gravity has to do with the weight of the urine. 1.005 to 1.030 would be a normal range there. The euros 0. one to one. And then all other values here are found as a negative. So again, results in the qualitative as well as in the quantitative, numerical versus the positive or the negative reading.

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Understanding Normal Lab Values and Ranges