Tests Catalogs

One 2.7 mL blue top (3.2% citrate plasma).

Also acceptable: One 1.8 mL blue top tube (3.2% sodium citrate).

All blue top tubes collected for coagulation assays that do not have a blood culture collected first must have a discard tube collected prior to filling. The discard tube should be another blue top tube in which greater than 1 mL of blood is collected.

0.5 mL platelet poor plasma.

Clotted sample; tube fill volume less than 70% or greater than 110%; more than 4 hours since collection; sample not properly identified; incorrect container; insufficient sample volume.

Internal: Deliver to lab immediately at ambient temperature.
Offsite: Separate plasma from cells as soon as possible. Place plasma in an aliquot container and transport to lab frozen.

Whole blood: Ambient, 4 hours.

Platelet poor plasma aliquot: Ambient, 4 hours; Refrigerated, 4 hours; Frozen (-20 degrees C), 2 weeks; Frozen (-70 degrees C), 6 months.

PCL Clinical Laboratory - Coagulation

5.0 mL Purple Top Tube

1.5 mL EDTA plasma

0.5 mL EDTA plasma

Ambient temperature. Serum.

Spin/Separate and ship to PCL lab on Dry Ice.

Mayo Medical Laboratories

Internal: Deliver to lab immediately at ambient temperature or on cold pack.

Offsite: Deliver to lab at 2-8 degrees C if tested within 48 hours. Send frozen if shipping delay is anticipated to be greater than 48 hours.

Collect 1 mL of sterile needle washout into a sterile container.

Specimen not properly identified; incorrect container; insufficient sample volume; specimen thawed more than once.

Internal: Deliver to lab immediately at ambient temperature or on cold pack.

Offsite: Deliver to lab at 2-8 degrees C if delivered within 48 hours. Send frozen if shipping delay is anticipated to be greater than 48 hours.

Ambient: 8 hours, Refrigerated: 48 hours, Frozen (-20 degrees C): Indefinitely.

FNA TGLOB test includes FNA THYROGLOBULIN and FNA THY AB assays.

PCL Clinical Laboratory - Core Chemistry

3 mL EDTA whole blood or bone marrow

Serum/plasma. Frozen samples.

Ambient: 5 days

Refreigerated:  Acceptable but not preferred

Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora, CO.

One 4.5 mL Green top tube with gel separator (PST)

Minimum volume: 1.5 mL blood

Sample not properly identified, insufficient sample volume, incorrect container.

Internal: Deliver to lab immediately. Protect from light.
Offsite: Centrifuge within 30 minutes of collection, transport refrigerated.

Refrigerated: 8 hours; Frozen: 1 month

Patient should be fasting.

PCL Clinical Laboratory - CORE

One 4.5 mL Gold top tube with gel separator, clot activator serum.

Minimum volume: 1.5 mL blood

Specimen not properly identified; incorrect container; insufficient sample volume.

Internal: Deliver to lab immediately.
Offsite: Allow samples to clot 30 minutes before centrifugation. Keep tubes stoppered at all times. Centrifuge to separate cells from serum. Transport to Laboratory refrigerated.

After centrifugation:

Ambient, 8 hours; Refrigerated, 2 days; Frozen, Unacceptable

Serum aliquot:

Ambient, 8 hours; Refrigerated, 2 days; Frozen (-20 degrees C), Unknown.

Samples that have been thawed and refrozen are not suitable for FSH analysis.

PCL Clinical Laboratory - Core

One 2.7 mL Blue top tube (sodium citrate 3.2%).

Tubes must be filled to 80-100% capacity; or 0.5 mL of platelet poor plasma.

Sample not properly identified; incorrect container; insufficient sample volume; clotted sample; hemolysed sample; tubes not filled to 80-100% capacity

Internal: Deliver to lab immediately.
Offsite: Transport to laboratory at ambient temperature if within 1 hour of collection. If transport is delayed outside of ambient temperature stability guidelines, centrifuge the sample to obtain platelet-poor plasma. Place plasma in aliquot tube (1.0 mL platelet-poor plasma) and send frozen.

Plasma- Ambient: 2 hours; Refrigerated: 4 hours; Frozen (-20 degrees C): 1 month

Use: Monitor prophylactic fondaparanux (Arixtra) levels in patient serum.