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LAC WB ARTERIAL
Notes:
If specimen is unable to be received in the lab and analyzed within 15 minutes of collection, send specimen on ice. Blood Gas specimens on ice are stable for one hour. All specimens must have air bubbles expelled and the syringe capped.
Collection:
Collection Container: Heparinized Syringe
Collection Volume: 0.5 mL
Stability:
Do not store. Send specimen to lab immediately.
Ambient: 15 Minutes
Refrigerated (preferred): 1 Hour
Turn Around Time (TAT):
10 MINUTES
Test Availability:
24 hrs a day / 7 Days a week
Reference Interval:
0.5 – 1.6 mmol/L
Performing Laboratory Section
ART and Shawn Jenkins Hospital: send to ART OR Lab, 4th floor, Tube Station #55.
Main Hospital campus: send to Central Lab Receiving - EH318 University Hospital Extension, Tube Station #99.