Tube colors
This is the tube color that a Basic metabolic panel goes in?
What is a light green or Gold
This color tube is drawn 6th in the order of draw
What is Dark Green
This stands for prothrombin time and can have a INR added with it
What is PT
This tests needs to be chilled and is drawn 5th in the order of draw
What is a Vitamin B12
You will find this additive in a Royal Blue as well as other tubes
What is EDTA
This tube goes to the Hematology department holding whole blood with tests such as a CBC and ESR.
What is purple
This color tube is drawn 3rd in the order of draw
What is red
This stands for erythrocyte sedimentation rate
What is a ESR
This test is commonly drawn on an infant
What is a bilirubin
This additive is found in a gray top and sounds like something you brush your teeth with
What is sodium fluoride
This tube color deals with tests such as GTT (Glucose tolerance test.)
What is Gray top
This tube color is drawn 8th in the order of draw
What is a purple top
GTT stands for
What is a Glucose tolerance test
This test is drawn in a red top tube and needs to be Chilled
What is an ammonia
This additive is in a light blue tube and deals with coagulation studies
What is Sodium citrate
This tube color is ordered when doing a coagulation study.
What is a Light Blue
A light blue, Blood cultures, 2 Light green, and 2 grays are ordered what is the 2nd to be drawn
What is a Light Blue
CMP stands for
what is a comprehensive metabolic panel
This test doesn't need a tube but needs to be at the lab within 30mins of deposit
What is a UA
This additive can be found in SST
What is a Clot activator
The test CRP can be in a Gold tube but this is it's preferred color tube
What is a red tube
In the order draw this is number 11
What is a Gray top
These 3 letters mean Human immunodeficiency virus
What is HIV
This test can only be drawn between 8am and 11am
What is a testosterone
This additive can be found in a PST
What is lithium heparin