Specimen Stability (for laboratory use only)
Collection Container
Light green top (lithium heparin, PST)
Service Code:
LBC00802
Collection Instructions:
1. Draw sufficient blood into light green top tube.
2. Gently invert the tube 8-10 times.
3. Send specimen to the laboratory immediately.
2. Gently invert the tube 8-10 times.
3. Send specimen to the laboratory immediately.
Unacceptable Conditions:
Clotted
Haemolysed
Grossly icteric
Grossly lipaemic
Haemolysed
Grossly icteric
Grossly lipaemic
Specimen Stability:
Ambient
Not Centrifuged: 2 hours
Refrigerate
Frozen
Reflex Tests:
N.A.
Performance
Turn Around Time:
Stat: 2 hours Routine: 4 hours
Days Test Performed:
Testing Laboratory:
Woodlands Hospital Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Biochemistry
Clinical & Interpretative
Description:
Methodology:
Potentiometric, indirect ISE technology
Reference Interval:
3.5 - 4.5 mmol/L
Critical Values:
<2.5 mmol/L
>6.0 mmol/L
>6.0 mmol/L
