ADDITIVES
MISCELLANEOUS
TUBES
THE ORDER
THE ORDER/DEPARTMENTS
100
Sodium Citrate
What is a light blue top?
100
Order of Draw was established by which agency?
What is CLIA?
100
Green top tubes are used for what kind of tests
What is Chemistrytests?
100
The 2nd tube drawn (color and additive)
What is Light Blue (sodium citrate)?
100
The 3rd tube drawn
What is a Tiger Top or Red Top (Gel barrier or no additive)
200
No additive
What is a Red Top?
200
30 minutes is the time it takes for this to occur
What is Clotting?
200
Red top tubes do not have this
What is an additive?
200
The 5th tube drawn
Lavender (EDTA)
200
The 6th tube drawn
What is pink (EDTA)?
300
Sodium Flouride
Gray
300
The tube that goes to Hematology most often
What is a lavender (EDTA)?
300
Pink and Lavender tubes have this additive
EDTA
300
The 1st thing that is drawn
What is Blood Cultures
300

The 7th tube drawn

What is a gray top (sodium fluoride)

400
Sodium and Lithium Heparin
What is a green top?
400
This test is ran in the Coagulation department
What is a PT-INR?
400
Another name for Gel Barrier that is not the color of the tube
What is an SST (Serum Separator Tube)
400
The 4th tube drawn
What is a Green top (Sodium/Lithium Heparin)
400
This department can analyze test that have been drawn in a green, tiger and red top tubes
What is Chemistry?
500
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
What is EDTA?
500
A Type and Screen is drawn in this tube and taken to this department
What is a pink (EDTA) and What is Blood Bank?
500
Blood Cultures have both of these types of bottles in 1 set
What is aerobic and anaerobic
500

The 9th tube drawn

What is a Royal Blue top (EDTA/No additive)

500
Microbiology will analyze these
What is Blood Cultures?
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