ARUP's Laboratory Test Directory

Drugs of Abuse Confirmation/Quantitation - Opiates - Serum or Plasma : 0092354

Mnemonic: OPIS SP

Methodology: Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Performed: Sun-Sat
Reported: 1-4 days
Specimen Required: Collect:  Two 7 mL gray (sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate).  Also acceptable: plain red, green (sodium heparin), lavender (EDTA), or pink (K2EDTA).

Storage/Transport Temperature:  4 mL serum or plasma at 2-8°C. (Min: 2 mL) Submit specimen in an ARUP Standard Transport Tube.

Remarks:  Remove serum/plasma from cells ASAP

Unacceptable Conditions:  Specimens exposed to repeated freeze/thaw cycles. Separator tubes and plasma or whole blood from lt. blue (sodium citrate).

Stability (collection to initiation of testing):  After separation from cells: Ambient: 1 week; Refrigerated: 2 weeks; Frozen: 3 years
Interpretive Data: Drugs covered: codeine, dihydrocodeine, morphine, 6-acetylmorphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone and oxymorphone.

Positive cutoff:
2 ng/mL

The absence of expected drug(s) and/or drug metabolite(s) may indicate non-compliance, inappropriate timing of specimen collection relative to drug administration, poor drug absorption, or limitations of testing. The concentration value must be greater than or equal to the cutoff to be reported as positive. Interpretive questions should be directed to the laboratory.

For medical purposes only; not valid for forensic use.
CPT Code(s): 83925
Cross References: Codeine, Serum or Plasma, Dilaudid, Serum or Plasma, Heroin, Serum or Plasma, Hydrocodone, Lortab, and Vicodin, Serum or Plasma, Hydromorphone, Serum or Plasma, Morphine, Serum or Plasma, MS Contin, Serum or Plasma, Norco, Serum or Plasma, Opana (oxymorphone), Confirmation/Quantitation - Opiates - Serum or Plasma, Opana, Serum or Plasma, Opiates Quantitation, Serum or Plasma, Oxycodone, Serum or Plasma, OxyContin, Serum or Plasma, Oxymorphone, Serum or Plasma, Percocet, Serum or Plasma, Percodan, Serum or Plasma, Roxicet, Serum or Plasma, Roxiprin, Serum or Plasma, Tylox, Serum or Plasma
 
 

 

 

 
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