ORDER OF DRAW BASICS
This tube color goes first in the order of draw because it must remain sterile.
What is the Blood Culture (Sterile) bottle or Yellow SPS tube?
Phlebotomist sends to microbiology lab
What is blood culture tubes?
Place these tubes in correct order: Lavender, Light Blue, Blood Cultures
Correct order:
Blood Cultures → Light Blue → Lavender
Additive found in grey tube top
Potassium oxalate, sodium fluoride
Patient gets prenatal testing done and requires: CBC,blood typing, rubella viral antigen screen, hepatitis panel, HIV. How will you set up your tubes for the blood draw?
What are red, gold/speckled top, lavendar, pink tubes?
The number of inversions for red tube top (additive and no additive)
What is 5 for with additive and 0 for no additive
The lab in which the lavender tube is sent to
What is hematology lab
Place these tubes in correct order: Gold, Green, Light Blue
Correct order:
Light Blue → Gold → Green
Additive found in light yellow tube top
acid citrate dextrose (ACD)
A doctor wants to test for the following cryoglobulins, glucose, lactic acid, lipid panel. How would you set up your tubes for the following blood draw?
What are red, gold/speckled, grey?
This tube, containing sodium citrate, is drawn immediately after blood cultures.
What is the Light Blue tube?
The labs that pink top tube are sent to
Blood bank or immunohematology
Place these tubes in correct order: Red, Lavender, Gray
Correct order:
Red → Lavender → Gray
Additive found in royal blue tube top
K2 EDTA or clot activator
The OBGYN doctor wants to test for the following BRCA, BMP, LMP, CBC, Vitamin A. How would you set up your tubes for this blood draw collection?
What are Gold/speckled, Lavender, light yellow?
The number of inversions for pink tube top
What is 8 inversions
Labs grey tube top is sent to
Chemistry
A child comes in with symptoms of leukemia: bone pain, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes. The physician orders: CBC without diff, genetic test, and Vitamin B6. What would be the correct order of draw?
Correct order: Lavendar --> Pink
Additives found in green top tube
Lithium heparin, sodium heparin, or ammonium heparin
The primary care doctor wants to test for the following ANA, rheumatoid factor, lidocaine, cryoglobins, digoxin testing. How would you set up your phlebotomy station for this blood draw?
What is Red, gold/speckled tube top?
The number of inversions for yellow top/ blood culture tube
What is 8 inversions
The lab we would send iron level, IgA, and lipid panel test to
What is chemistry, serology, or immunology lab?
Place these tubes in correct order: Royal Blue (EDTA), Light Green, Blood Cultures, Red
Correct order:
Aerobic Blood Culture → Anaerobic Blood Culture → Red → Light Green → Royal Blue (EDTA)
Sodium polyanethol sulfate (SPS) is the additive found in this tube
Yellow top (blood culture) tube
A patient is experiencing persistent fever, chills, rapid heart rate. The physician would like to test for the following: PT/INR, Total protein, venous blood gas, stat electrolytes, hemoglobin A1C, Epstein barr virus, vancomycin, Septicemia. What would be the correct order of draw?
What is Aerobic blood culture, anaerobic blood culture, Light blue, red, tiger top, green, lavender.