HEMATOCRIT with Arterial Blood Gas

 AC HCT

 High Volume Lab room 5.134 McCullough, Point-of-Care - ISCU

 10 minutes (5 minutes CODE)

Collect: Routine venipuncture.  Heparinized syringe, green-topped (heparin) vacutainer tube, or lavender-topped (EDTA) vacutainer tube

Storage/Transport: 2-8°C; Transport immediately (within 15 minutes) on ice to lab.

Causes for Rejection: Hemolysis, clotted, blood leaking from syringe, syringes with needles attached, improperly labeled, incomplete information

If applicable, state clinical information that is required to be provided with specimen.

By report (reports may vary based on instrumentation, patient age and sex)

 Emergency cases should be sent to the Blood Gas Section of the High Volume Lab. This information applies to those cases. Indicate on slip and announce to lab personnel if sample is a CODE; sample will receive priority analysis. For routine hematocrit tests, order Hematocrit only (Hematology test) and send or deliver to Sample Managment, room 5.136 McCullough Building.

  85014

When ordering tests for which Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement will be sought, physicians should only order tests that are medically necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of the patient.  Components of the organ or disease panels may be ordered individually.  The diagnostic information must substantiate all tests ordered and must be in the form of an ICD-9 code or its verbal equivalent.

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