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Additive
Department
Tube Color
Common Test
Order of Draw
100
What color Tube has the additive Buffered Sodium Citrate?
Blue
100
What department does Blood Cultures go to?
Microbiology
100
The tube with no additive
Plain Red
100
Buffered Sodium Citrate tube
PT, PTT, D-Dimer
100
What is the 1st in the order of draw after the White D/C tube
Yellow/SPS
200
What color tube has the additive Thrombin
Orange
200
Where does a CBC tube go to?
Hematology
200
The tube for lead studies
Tan/Brown
200
Plain Red top
TDM
200
What is the 4th in order of draw
Rock:  Red/SST
300
What color top tube has the additive EDTA
Purple
300
What department does a PAP smear go to?
Pathology
300
Blood cultures are drawn in what color tube?
Yellow/ SPS
300
Green on ICE
NH3 and Lactic Acid
300
What is the last in the order of draw?
Gray
400
What color top tube has the additive Lithium Heparin, Ammonia Heparin, and Sodium Heparin?
Green
400
What department does a Blue top tube go to?
Coagulation
400
What color tube is used for DNA/Paternity
Yellow ADC
400
Purple Tube

CBC and  HemA1C

400
What is tube is drawn after the Green top?
Purple
500
What color top tube has the additive known as Glycholic Inhibitors?
Gray
500
What department does a Type and Screen  sample go to?
Blood Bank
500
Besides the SST tube what other color tube can be used?
Gold
500
Royal Blue
Nutritional Studies, Trace Metals
500
What is the 3rd in the order of draw?
Blue Buffered Sodium Citrate