Creatinine, Body Fluid

Specimen:

Test Code

CRETBF

Specimen Name

Creatinine, Body Fluid

Collect

1 Plain Red Top Tube-no gel or sterile transport tube

Submit

1 mL (Min: 0.5 mL) Serum

Special Handling

Specimen must be completely spun with in one hour of collection. If no gel seperator serum or plasma must be removed from cells and stored in a specimen transport tube.

Rejection Criteria

Stability

Preferred/Transport Refrigerated 7 days

Methodology

Kinetic Colorimetric Jaffé Method

Performed

Sunday - Saturday

Reported

1-2 days

CPT Codes

  • 82570

Components

Includes: Sodium, Potassium, Chloride, Carbon Dioxide, Glucose, Urea Nitrogen, Creatinine, Calcium, Albumin, Total Protein, AST, ALT, Alkaline Phos, Total Bilirubin, GFR Estimation, Anion Gap, A/G Ratio.

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