Tube Colors
Anticoagulant
Deparment
Common Test
100

Eighth and Ninth tube in the order of draw

What is the Gray tube?

What is the Yellow Tube?

100

Sodium Polyanethole Sulfonate(SPS)

What is Blood Culture?

100
Blood Culture/ Light Blue

What is Microbiology? 

What is Coagulation?  

100

Fungal and bacteria test

Rapid Plasma Reagin

what is Blood Culture?

What is Red Top?

200

Seventh tube color in the order of draw

What is the Lavendar/Pink tube?

200

Sodium Citrate/ ACD Solution

What is Light Blue?

What is Yellow Tube?

200

Red Tube/ Gold Tube

What is Chemistry?

200

Prothrombin

CMP

What is Light Blue?

What is Gold Top?

300

Fifth and Sixth tube of the order of draw

what is Light green tube?

What is Dark Green tube?

300

K2EDTA/ NA2EDTA

What is Lavendar Tube?

What is Gray Tube?

300

Light Green/ Dark Green

What is Chemistry
300

Cardiac Markers

Sed Rate(ESR)

What is Light Green top?

What is Lavendar Top?

400

First and Second tube in the order of draw

What is the blood culture tube?

What is the Light blue tube?

400

Clot Activator/ None

What is Gold tube?

What is Red tube?

400

Lavendar/ Grey

What is coagulation?

What is Chemistry

400

Latic Acid (NOT on ice)

Lactic Acid (ON ice)

What is Dark Green top?

What is Grey top)

500

Third and Fourth Tube of the order of draw

What is the Red tube?

What is the Gold tube?

500

Lithium Heparin/ Sodium Heparin

What is Light Green?

What is Dark Green?

500

Yellow Tube

What is Microbiology?

500

DNA Studies

What is Yellow Top