Evacuated Tube Additives & Order Of Draw Flashcards
YELLOW
•First order of draw
•Commonly used for blood cultures
•mix it 8 times
**Additive includes:
Sodium Polyanethol Sulfonate (SPS)
(An anticoagulant that reduces damage to bacteria)
LIGHT BLUE
•Second Order Of Draw
•Commonly used for coagulation tests
•sodium citrate tubes
•mix it 3-4 times
Additive includes:
Sodium Citrate
(An anticoagulant)
RED/RED&GRAY;GOLD/ORANGE
•Third order of draw
•Commonly used for chemistry test (metabolic panel, lipid panel)
•serum tubes
•mix it 5-10 times
•Red- silica (clot activator)
•Red&gray/gold- serum separator tube (SST) (with silica & separator gel)
•Orange- Rapid serum tube (RST) with thrombin (A fast-acting anticoagulant)
DARK GREEN/LIGHT GREEN & GRAY
•fourth order of draw
•Commonly used for stat chemistry tests
•heparin tubes
•Mix 5-10 times
•DARK GREEN- heparin
(an anticoagulant)
•LIGHT GREEN/ GREEN & GRAY- (plasma separator tube (PST) with heparin and gel separator)
LAVENDER/PINK
PEARL/WHITE
•FIFTH ORDER OF DRAW
•EDTA tubes
•Mix 8-10 times
•Commonly used for hematology tests (CBC, blood bank testing)
●LAVENDER/PINK-
(EDTA, an anticoagulant)
●PEARL/WHITE-
(Plasma preparation tube (PPT) with EDTA and gel separator)
GRAY
•6TH ORDER OD DRAW
•Sodium Fluoride or potassium oxalate
•Commonly used for glucose tests/ethanol tests
•mix 8-10 times
●SODIUM FLUORIDE, (an antiglycolytic agent), or
●POTASSIUM OXALATE, (an anticoagulant)
YELLOW
•7TH ORDER OF DRAW
•Acid Citrate Dextrose (ACD)
•MIX 8 times
•Commonly used for DNA testing/transplant compatibility
●ACID CITRATE DETROSE (ACD), (An anticoagulant (acid cirtate) and RBC preservative (dextrose))
ROYAL BLUE
•ORDER OF DRAW: N/A
•Trace Element-Free tubes
•Commonly used for toxicology/trace Element tests
•mix: varies
●Free of trace Element contamination and may contain inherent Additives (drawn in order of additives)
