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16 Cards in this Set
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Red Top
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Additive: None
Mode of Action: Blood clots, and the serum is seperated by centrifugation Test: Serum Chemistries, Immunology and Serology, Blood Bank (crossmatch) |
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Gold Top
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Additive: Thixotropic gel separator or clot activator
Mode of Action: Serum separator tube (SST) contains a gel at the bottom to separate blod from serum on centrifugation Test: Most Chemistries testing, Immunology and Serology |
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Light Green Top
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Additive: Plasma Separating Tube (PST) with Lithium Heparin
Mode of Action: Anticoagulates with lithium heparin; lasma is separated with PST get at the bottom of the tube. Test: Stat potassium |
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Lavender
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Additive: EDTA
Mode of Action: Forms calcium salts to remove calcium Test: Hematology (CBC) and Blood Bank (Crossmatch); requires FULL DRAW-invert 8 times to prevent clotting and platelet clumping. |
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Light Blue Top
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Additive: Sodium Citrate .105M or .129M
Mode of action: Forms calcium salts to remove calcium Test: Coagulation tests (protime and prothrombin time), FULL DRAW required. |
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Green Top
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Additive: Sodium heparin, lithium heparin or Ammonium heparin
Mode of Action: Inactivates thrombin and thromboplastin Test: For lithium level, use sodium heparin. For ammonia level, use sodium or lithium heparin. Plasma Chemistries |
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Royal Blue
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Additive: Sodium Heparin, EDTA or none
Mode of Action: Tube is designed to contain no contaminating metals. Test: Toxicology, trace metals, nutritional analysis |
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Gray Top
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Additive: Sodium fluoride( preserves 3days) and potassium oxalate or heparin, Iodoacetate( preserves 24hours)
Mode of Action: Antiglycolytic agent preserves glucose up to 3 days Test: Lactic acid measurement, glucose tolerance test, fasting blood sugar(FBS), blood alcohol levels. |
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Yellow Top(Non sterile)
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Additive: ACD (acid-citrate-dextrose)
Mode of action: Complement inactivation. Test: HLA tissue typing, paternity testing, DNA studies |
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Yellow Top(Sterile)
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Additive: SPS(sodium polyethanol sulfonate)
Mode of action: Preserves viability of microorganisms. Test: Microbiology-aerobes, aneaerobes, fungi |
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Black Top
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Additive: Sodium citrate (buffered)
Mode of action: Forms calcium salts to remove calcium Test: Sedimentation rate |
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Orange Top
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Additive: Thrombin
Mode of Action: Quickly clots blood Test: STAT serum chemistries |
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Tan Top
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Additive Sodium heparin
Mode of Action: Inactivates thrombin and thromboplastin; Contains virtually no lead. Test: Serum Lead determination |
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Pink Top
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Additive: Potassium EDTA(K2 EDTA)
Mode of Action: Forms calcium salts Test: Molecular/viral load testing |
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Collection tube top colors-How many are there?
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14
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Red Top(Plastic tube)
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Additives: Clot activators
Mode of action: serum Test: Chemistry and serology |