Tubes Flashcards
Light Blue additive
Sodium citrate
Light Blue test
Coagulation
Light Blue inversions
4
Gold and gray/yellow
Rapid serum tubes
Gold and yellow/gray additive
Thrombin (completes clotting if blood in less than 5 min)
Gel for serum separation
Gold and yellow/gray tears
STAT lab test requiring serum
Red additive
None- Blood will clot within 30 min
Can have Clot activator
Red used for
Serum chemistry
Routine blood donor screening
Infectious disease serum testing
Light green additive
Lithium heparin and gel for plasma Separation
Light green inversion
8
Light green test
Plasma chem
Orange additives
Just thrombin based clot activator or with gel for serum separation
Orange inversion with separator
5-6
Orange inversion w/out separator
8
Orange tests
Stat serum chem
Royal blue additive
K2EDTA or clot activator
Royal blue inversion
8
Royal blue test
Trace elements, toxicology, nutritional chem
Green add
Sodium or lithium heparin
Green inversion
8
Green tests
Plasma chem
Gray add
Potassium oxalate/sodium fluoride
Sodium fluoride/Na EDTA
Sodium fluoride
Gray inversions
8
Gray tests
Glucose
Oxalate and EDTA give plasma samples
Sodium Fl is anitglycolytic
Tan add
K2EDTA
Tan inversion
8
Tan tests
Lead
Yellow add
Sodium polyanethol sulfonate or Acid Citrate Dextrose
Yellow inversions
8
Yellow tests
SPS for blood cultures in micro
ACD for bloodbank studies, phenotyping, and DNA and pattern testing.
Lavender add
Liquid spray K2EDTA
Lavender inversion
8
Lavender tryst
Whole blood EDTA tests or immunohematology and blood donor screening
White add
K2EDTA and gel plasma separation
White inversion
8
Pink add
Spray coated EDTA
Pink inversion
8
Pink tests
Blood bank, whole blood hematology