| Methodology: |
Enzymatic
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| Performed: |
Sun-Sat
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| Reported: |
Within 24 hours
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| Specimen Required: |
Patient Prep: Patient should be fasting and at complete rest. Patient should avoid any exercise of the arm or hand before or during collection. Draw the specimen without the use of a tourniquet or within three minutes of applying the tourniquet, but before releasing the tourniquet.
Collect: Gray (sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate). Collect blood without stasis. Collect on ice.
Specimen Preparation: Immediately chill specimen; do not freeze whole blood. Centrifuge specimen within 15 minutes of collection. Transport 1 mL plasma. (Min: 0.2 mL)
Storage/Transport Temperature: Refrigerated.
Unacceptable Conditions: EDTA, citrate, or iodoacetate as anticoagulants. Tubes less than half full.
Stability (collection to initiation of testing): After separation from cells: Ambient: Unacceptable; Refrigerated: 2 weeks; Frozen: 1 month
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