You are caring for a patient who develops a urinary tractinfection. You collect a sample
at 6:00 am and have the clerk send the sample down to the lab.An emergency occurs on
the floor and the sample is left on the counter for four and ahalf (4½) hours, before the
clerk places the urine in the unit refrigerator. The sample issent down to the lab 3 hours
and a half (3½) hours afterward. At 6:00 am, the sample had1,231 cells and has a
generation time of 20 minutes. What is the number of bacterialcells after the eight hour
delay?
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