Department
Tube Color
Additive
Specimen Type
Order number in the Order of Draw
100

 Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP) is performed in this specific department in the core lab? 

What is Chemistry?

100

What color(s) tube contains the additive EDTA?

What is Purple?

100

The additive found in the Dark Green tube would be?

What is Sodium Heparin?

100

This specimen type is the portion of blood used to test the CBC. 

What is whole blood?

100

The sodium citrate (blue) tube is number ____ in the order of draw.

What is 1?

200

A Purple top tube is taken and analyzed in this department?

What is Hemotology?

200

What color top tube is acid washed to keep the material from the tube effecting the ordered tests?

What is Royal Blue?

200

This additive is used to test PTINR.

What is Sodium Citrate

200

A Sodium Heparin tube surrenders this type of specimen.

What is Plasma

200

The _____ and the _____ top tube have the same additive.  These tubes are numbers 7 and 8 in the order of draw.

What is Pink and Purple?

300

The tube that contains Sodium Citrate is analyzed in this department?

What is Coagulation?

300

This color tube is used to detect drugs of abuse in a patient.

What is Gray top tube?

300

The test Cold Agglutinins can only be tested using this additive.

What is Clot Activator?

300

The Red, Gold / Tiger, and sometimes Royal blue tubes are the only tubes that are _____ specimens.

What is Serum?

300

If blood cultures, ptinr, cbc, drugs of abuse, potassium level are ordered, you would draw the blood culture in what number of the order of draw 

What is 1?
400

What department in the lab does testing on Blood Cultures?

What is Microbiology?

400

The color of tube (s) containing Sodium Polyanethol sulfonate is? 

What is Yellow, Teal, and Orange?

400

This common additive is found in the Purple and Pink top tubes.

What is EDTA?

400

Blood Cultues are performed on this kind kind of specimen.

What is Whle blood?

400

The additive in this tube is number 6 in the order of draw.  

What is lithium heparin?

500

What department in a hospital lab would perform the testing on both plasma and red cells?

What is Blood Bank?

500

The specimen type for these common tubes are serum.

What is Gold/ tiger and Red?

500

These 2 additives are found in the gray top tube.

What is Sodium Fluoride and Potassium Oxalate?

500

Sodium Flouride and Potassium Oxalate are the additives used for the gray top tube.  The specimen type in this tube is _____.

What is Plasma?

500

The Acid Citrate Dextrose tube is collected in this number in the order of draw.

What is 11?

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