Specimen:
Collect
- One Gray Top (1/2HR)
- One Gray Top (1HR)
- One Gray Top (2HR)
- One Gray Top (FAST)
- One URINE (1HR)
- One URINE (2HR)
- One URINE (FAST)
Submit
- Four 4 mL (Min:1 mL) Whole blood in Gray Top. Submit Refrigerated.
- Three 10 mL (Min:1 mL) Timed Urine in Sterile Specimen Container. Submit Refrigerated.
Also Acceptable:
- Four 1 mL (Min:0.5 mL) Plasma . Submit Refrigerated. Submit in a Standard Transport Tube.
- Three 10 mL (Min:1 mL) Timed Urine in Sterile Specimen Container. Submit Refrigerated.
Special Handling
- Draw fasting specimen and collect fasting urine, then give 75gm glucola. At 1/2 hour draw "1/2 HR" post sample. At 1 hour draw "1 HR" post sample and collect "1 HR" urine. At 2 hour draw "2 HR" post sample and collect "2 HR" urine.
Label tubes "Fasting", "1/2 HR", "1 HR", and "2 HR".
Other alternative samples for Gray:
SST, Green Top (Li Hep), Lavender EDTA, Pink EDTA, Red Top (To be submitted with urine).
If using alternative serum or plasma separate from cells ASAP.
Serum or plasma stability: Ambient 8 hrs, RF 3 days, FZ 1 month
Urine stability: Ambient 1 hr, RF 1 day
Rejection Criteria
- Hemolyzed specimens
- Microbially Contaminated
- Unlabled Specimens
Stability
Ambient: 1 Day(s); Refrigerated: 3 Day(s); Frozen: Unacceptable; Incubated: Unacceptable
Methodology
- Colorimetric
- Kinetic
Performed
Mon-Fri
Reported
1-3 Day(s)
CPT Codes
- 81002x3
- 82951
- 82952
Interpretive Data
Please see report for interpretive data.
Components
- 2400 - GLUCOSE, FASTING
- 2407 - GLUCOSE, 1/2HR
- 2401 - GLUCOSE, 1HR
- 2402 - GLUCOSE, 2HR
- 2410 - UR, GLUCOSE FAST
- 2411 - UR, GLUCOSE 1HR
- 2412 - UR, GLUCOSE 2HR
Last Updated: November 20, 2024 @ 10:13 am
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