Tube Color
First tube used in most circumstances
What is a red discard tube?
Lavender
What is EDTA?
Location closest to the point of origin
What is Proximal?
Platelet function test done.
What is Sodium Citrate (Lt. Blue tube)?
Erythro-
What is red?
Gray, green, and lavender tubes are needed, the correct order of draw
What is green, lavender, gray?
Lt Green
What is Heparin?
Lying face down?
What is Prone?
The color tube would you collect the CMP
What is a Gold/SST?
-emia
What is Blood?
Microtainer order of draw
What is EDTA (Lavender), Heparin (Green), Sodium-fluoride (grey), Non-additive/SST (Red/Gold)?
What is Lt Blue
What is Citrate?
Towards the back of the body
What is posterior?
Copper
What is a Royal Blue tube?
Veni-
What in Vein?
Collecting blood using a butterfly assembly, the tube must have a discard tube drawn prior to its filling
What is a citrate (Lt Blue) tube?
sodium heparin, clot activator, and EDTA.
What are royal-blue-stoppered evacuated blood collection tubes
Close to the midline of the body.
What is medial?
Fibrinogen
What is a Lt. Blue tube?
Vaso-
What is Vessel?
Order of Draw
What are Red, Lt Blue, Red, Gold/SST, Green, Lt Green, Lavender, pink, and gray?
Grey
What is Sodium-Fluoride?
Close to the surface of the body
What is superficial?
CBC
What is a lavender (EDTA) tube?
-stasis
What is Stoppage?