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Lactic Acid, Plasma

Specimen:

Collect

  • One Gray Top

Submit

  • 1 mL (Min:0.5 mL) Plasma . Submit Refrigerated. Submit in a Standard Transport Tube.

Special Handling

  • Avoid Hemolysis
  • Draw the specimen without the use of a tourniquet or within one minutes of applying the tourniquet, but before releasing the tourniquet.
    Patient should be fasting and at complete rest. Collect blood without stasis in sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate, followed by immediate chilling of the specimen and separation of cells within 15 minutes.

Rejection Criteria

  • Collection tube not properly filled

Stability

Ambient: 8 Hour(s); Refrigerated: 2 Week(s); Frozen: 1 Month(s); Incubated: Unacceptable

Methodology

  • Chromophore Absorbance

Performed

Mon-Fri

Reported

1-3 Day(s)

CPT Codes

  • 83605

Interpretive Data

General Reference Range : 0.5-2.2 mmol/L

Components

  • 2092 - LACTIC ACID
Last Updated: November 12, 2024 @ 10:13 am

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