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Unit Code 15080:
Heavy Metals Screen with Demographics, Blood

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Specimen Required

1.  Draw a full, royal blue-top Monoject trace element blood

      collection tube, product #8881-307022 (Supply T183), containing

      EDTA as an anticoagulant. (Green-top [heparin] tube is not

      acceptable.)

2.  Send specimen refrigerated in original VACUTAINER.

3.  It is important that the specimen be obtained, processed, and

      transported according to instructions in "Metals Analysis - Collection

      and Transport" in Special Instructions.

Note:     Please complete a "Lead/Heavy Metals Reporting Form"

                  (Supply T491), and forward it with the specimen. Or, send the

                  demographic information electronically.

Transport Temperature

Refrig\Ambient OK\Frozen OK

Reject Due To

Specimens Other Than:                 Whole Blood

Anticoagulants Other Than:           EDTA

Hemolysis:                                          No

Thawing:                                             

Lipemia:                                               No                                         

 

Day(s) and Time(s) Test Performed

Monday through Saturday; 10 p.m./Continuously

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