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Abbreviation: CTCU

Specimen Type: Cervical, eye, rectal, urethral swab, or peritoneal fluid. Also acceptable for newborns: Nasopharyngeal aspirate, swab or washing.

Storage Temperature: Refrigerated

Tubes / Containers: Viral Transport Media

Instrument / Location: ARUP via RPS

Host Code: YCTCU

LOINC: 6349-5, 31208-2

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Additional Information: ARUP # 0060850

Abbreviation: UUMHC

Specimen Type: Viral Culture Media

Storage Temperature: Refrigerate

Tubes / Containers: Viral Transport Media (1)

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YUUMHC

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Abbreviation: FUNID

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YFUNID

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Abbreviation: FUNBL

Specimen Type: Mycolytic F Blood Culture Bottle (Red label / Red cap)

Storage Temperature: Room Temp for 72 hours

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YFUNBL

Volume: 5 mL for adults; 3 mL for pediatrics

Minimum Volume: 3 mL for adults; 1 mL for pediatrics

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Negative results available at 7 days and final at 30 days; Positives reported as soon as detected.

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Abbreviation: FUNCU

Specimen Type: Specimen

Storage Temperature: Split 1

Tubes / Containers: Swab

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YFUNCU

Minimum Volume: 5.0 mL fluid minimum

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Performed daily / Prelim at 2 weeks, final at 4 weeks.

Additional Information: Tissue, pus, purulent fluid, respiratory specimens, body fluid or any body site or fluid, skin biopsy. Collect in a sterile container or a Culturette swab. Indicate suspected organism(s) on the test request form. Additional patient history may be helpful. Include the patients occupation, history of travel or residence abroad, and any animal contact. Media is available for direct inoculation. If CSF cannot be transported with 8 hours, hold CSF at 35 degrees centigrade until the time of transport.

Abbreviation: FUNDCU

Specimen Type: Sterile container

Storage Temperature: Room temperature

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YFUNDCU

Tab Assignment: Microbiology

PSPC Testing Schedule: Prelim at 2 weeks, final at 4 weeks.

Additional Information: Hair, nails or skin scrapings. In a sterile container or clean envelope. Store and transport at ambient temperature.

Abbreviation: URNCU

Specimen Type: Urine preserved

Storage Temperature: Room temperature up to 48 hours

Tubes / Containers: Grey C&S Urine preservative tube

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YURNCU

Volume: 4ml

Minimum Volume: 3ml

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Additional Information: If sample volume is less than 3 mL send in refrigerated sterile urine cup with a leak-proof lid. Must be received at testing facility within 24 hours.

Abbreviation: AANC

Specimen Type: Specimen

Storage Temperature: Room Temp

Tubes / Containers: Specimen Cup (1)

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YAANC

LOINC: 9781-6

Volume: Corneal scrapings, vitreous fluid, or tissue (Place in 2 mL saline)

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Additional Information: ARUP # 0060245

Abbreviation: BPERT1

Specimen Type: Default

Storage Temperature: Split 1

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YBPERT

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Abbreviation: DIPCU

Specimen Type: Swab

Storage Temperature: Room Temp

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YDIPCU

Abbreviation: FROC

Specimen Type: Rectal Swab

Storage Temperature: Refrigerated / Time Sensitive

Tubes / Containers: Eswab

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YFROC

LOINC: 73836-9

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Performed everyday / Reported Negative at 4 days.

Additional Information: ARUP # 2008476 TIME SENSITIVE - Rectal Swab. Identification and susceptibility tests are billed separately from culture.

Abbreviation: MRSCU

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YMRSCU

Additional Information: Throat, nose, rectal recommended; any site or fluid is acceptable.

Abbreviation: STRSC

Specimen Type: Throat swab

Storage Temperature: Room temperature

Tubes / Containers: E Swab or Culturette II swab kit

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YSTRSC

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Prelim at 1 day, final at 2 days.

Additional Information: https://www.testmenu.com/nebraska/Tests/277223

Abbreviation: VREC

Specimen Type: Swab

Storage Temperature: Refrigerate

Tubes / Containers: Aerobic Swab (1)

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YVREC

Volume: Rectal Swab using Aerobic Culturette or 1 mL Stool in a Sterile Container

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Additional Information: Any site/source; recommend rectal swab for screening.

Abbreviation: BWCU

Specimen Type: Specimen

Storage Temperature: Refrigerate

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YBWCU

Volume: 10 mL

Minimum Volume: 2 mL

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Gram stain results same day, stat gram stain results in 1 hour, preliminary report at 1 day; final report at 2 days.

Abbreviation: TISCU

Specimen Type: Biopsy and/or surgical tissue, bone and bone specimens.

Tubes / Containers: Sterile Container

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YTISCU

Tab Assignment: Microbiology

PSPC Testing Schedule: Gram stain same day, stat 1 hour, prelim at 1 day, final at 5 days.

Additional Information: Keep small tissue sections moist with sterile nonbacteriostatic saline. An aerobe and anaerobic culture performed on properly collected specimens.

Abbreviation: TISCU

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YTISCU

LOINC: 627-0

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Abbreviation: AERCU

Specimen Type: Skin, ear, nasopharyngeal , wound, placenta, vaginal, cervical

Storage Temperature: Room temperature

Tubes / Containers: ESwab Collect

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YAERCU

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Gram stain same day, prelim results 1 day, final at 3 days.

Abbreviation: SINCU

Specimen Type: Specimen

Storage Temperature: Room Temp

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YSINCU

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Prelim at 1 day, final at 2 days.

Additional Information: Aerobic culture of sinus drainage. Two aerobic swabs, Culturette II. Includes gram stain.

Abbreviation: SPUCRPS

Specimen Type: Sterile container

Storage Temperature: Refrigerated

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YSPUCRPS

Volume: 10 mL

Minimum Volume: 1 mL

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Performed M-Sun. Gram stain same day.

Abbreviation: ANACU

Specimen Type: Specimen

Storage Temperature: Room Temp

Tubes / Containers: Anaerobic Media Aerobic Swab

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YANACU

Volume: Swab in anaerobic transport media, 0.5 mL pus, or other fluid or tissue from aspirated site in anaerobic transport media

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Results in 24-72 hours. Prelim at 24 hours. Final at 5 days.

Additional Information: One anaerobic Culturette and two aerobic Culturettes or 0.5 mL pus or other fluid from aspirated site in syringe with needle removed and replaced with a cap. Pus tissue, or other material properly obtained from an abscess, biopsy, aspirate, drainage, exudate, lesion, or wound. Body fluid; peritoneal, thoracentesis, pericardial, amniotic or culdoncenteseis fluid. Asceptically collect body fluid into a sterile container (preferred), or an anaerobic vial or anaerobic culturette. 2.0 - 20.0 mLs. Specimens will also be cultured for aerobic growth.

Abbreviation: CSFCU

Specimen Type: CSF

Tubes / Containers: Sterile Container

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YCSFCU

Volume: 1 - 2 mL

Minimum Volume: 0.2 mL

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Gram stain results reported as soon as stain is completed. Reports of cultures from which pathogens are isolated require minimum of 48 hrs for completion. Identification and susceptibility tests are performed on positive cultures.

Abbreviation: EYECU

Specimen Type: Specimen

Storage Temperature: Split 1

Tubes / Containers: Swab

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YEYECU

Tab Assignment: Microbiology

PSPC Testing Schedule: Gram stain reported same day, stat at 1 hour; preliminary results at 1 day, final result at 5 days.

Abbreviation: BFBLD

Specimen Type: Pleural fluid & Pericardial fluid sources ONLY - With the exception of Synovial fluid, all other body fluids need to be ordered as ANACU or AERCU.

Storage Temperature: Room temperature

Tubes / Containers: Aerobic and Anaerobic Bactec blood bottles

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YBFBLD

LOINC: 31208-2, 48767-8, 41852-5

Volume: 10 mL

Minimum Volume: 8 mL

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

Additional Information: If there is insufficient fluid to inoculate the Bactec bottles, please submit as an ANACU, rather than a BFBLD.

Abbreviation: SYNCU

Specimen Type: Synovial Fluid

Storage Temperature: Refrigerate

Tubes / Containers: Sterile Container AND 1 mL inoculated into Bactec Peds/Plus F bottle (Specimen volumes <1 mL routine culture plates only)

Instrument / Location: RPS

Host Code: YSYNCU

Volume: 3 mL

Minimum Volume: 1 mL

Tab Assignment: RPS Sendouts

PSPC Testing Schedule: Prelim at 1 day; final at 5 days. Gram stain, same day.

Additional Information: Synovial fluid, includes all joint fluids.