Order of Draw
Tube Colors
Additives
Labs
Test Performed
100
What is the first order of draw?
red top tube
100
What tube is Ammonia, carboxyhemoglobin(HCg preg.test), STAT Lytes in?
Green tube
100
What is the additive in light-blue-topped tube?
Sodium Citrate
100
What tube is use for routine chemistry test?
red-topped-tube
100
What tube is a blood banked to determine the type of blood and testing for patient/donor to see if blood is compatible
red-topped tube
200
What is the secound order of draw tube color?
Light-Blue-topped tube
200
What tube has a basic metabolic panel
tiger/gold tube
200
What is the additive in royal-blue-tube?
Clot activator and K2EDTA
200
What tube is used for hematology?
Lavender-topped-tube
200
What tube is used for DNA, paternity testing, and blood culture specimen collections
Yellow-topped-tube
300
Waht is the third order of draw tube color?
Tiger top or gold topped-tube
300
What tube is a blood banks/transfusion-for blood typing
pink top tube
300
What is the additive in the red-topped tube?
No additive
300
What tube is use for microbiology
Yellow-topped-tube
300
What tube Perform Prothrombin Time (PT), Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT) , Thrombin Time (TT), Fibrinogen, Fibrin degradation products (FDP), and D-dimer
light-blue-topped tube
400
What is fourth order of draw tube color?
Green top, mint top, and hash marks on label
400
What tube is a glucose levels, blood alcohol levels, lactate, and bicarbonate.
gray-topped-tube
400
What is the additive in the gray-topped-tube.
Potassium Oxalate and Sodium Fluoride
400
What tube is used for toxicology?
royal-blue-topped tube
400
What tube is a inversions that ensure mixing of either clot activator or anticoagulant (EDTA) with blood
royal-blue-topped tube
500
What is the fifth order of draw tube color?
Lavender
500
What tube is a blood bank
red-topped tube
500
What is the additive in yellow-topped-tube?
What is the additive in yellow-topped-tube?Sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS) and Acid citrate dextrose (ACD)
500
What tube is used for STAT chemisty?
green-topped-tube
500
What tube is a routine hematology test that include: hemoglobin, hematocrite, WBCs count
Lavender-topped tube
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