When performing routine urinalysis quality control you observe when you remove the dipsticks from the bottle that the urobilinogen pad is a brown color. What is your course of action?

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When performing routine urinalysis quality control you observe when you remove the dipsticks from the bottle that the urobilinogen pad is a brown color. What is your course of action? 

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A 4 year old child was admitted for vomiting and diarrhea. Has oliguria. Metabolic profile revealed an elevated serum urea. All other meaured parameters were within normal limits. A calculated urea to creatinine ratio was elevated. Urine color is dark yellow  and specific gravity is 1.035. No biochemical abnormalities were identified in urine. 

1. Does this child have renal dysfunction?

2. What condition(s) do these results suggest? 

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