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Contact the laboratory for special sample tubes/containers/instructions. |
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Confirmation of not negative drug screens by GCMS may take up to 5 days. |
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Clinical history essential and protect from light. |
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Send to the laboratory without delay. |
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Do not send sample to the laboratory between Friday noon and Monday morning. |
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Contact the Referrals Department before taking and sending sample to the laboratory. |
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Sample should be separated and frozen if sending overnight. |
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DRP Form required. DRP Form can be found at the back of the guide. |
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Clinical history must be provided. |
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Contact the laboratory for special stability tubes for lymphocyte subsets - or take an EDTA sample and ensure same day delivery to the laboratory, Monday to Friday noon (do not send sample between Friday noon and Monday morning).
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Patient consent required. Consent Form can be found at the back of the TDL Laboratory Guide. |
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Please provide one sample for each person being tested. |
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Protect from light. |
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Provide details of travel history. |
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Ammonia
Sample: EDTA plasma only. Full tubes and tightly stoppered. On ice, centrifuged and analysed 20-30 mins post venepuncture (or plasma can be frozen). If haemolysed gives falsely high results. Patient: Fasting. Avoid smoking. |
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Lactate
Sample: Fluoride oxalate plasma only. On ice and separate from cells 15-30 mins, analyse promptly. Handle with care as sweat contains large amounts of lactate. No tourniquet.
Patient: Rest 30 mins prior to test. |
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Homocysteine
Should be spun and separated with 1 hour of venepuncture. |
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Citrate Samples
Samples should be double spun and separated and frozen within 4-8 hours of sample taking, if a delay is expected with transportation to the laboratory, samples must be transported as frozen. |
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Must include patient’s age, height and weight. |
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Sample types: FCRU or PCR swab or TPV or Semen. |
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Urine cytology container, ideally first catch, mid-morning specimen. |
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Must be fresh. |
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For Fabry’s Syndrome |
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Anti-malarial drug. |
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Includes: potassium, magnesium, calcium, zinc, copper, selenium. |
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Tests for active metabolite 10-Hydroxycarbazepine. |
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Hereditary Neuropathy. |
| 28 |
VDRL and VDRL/TPHA have now been replaced by Syphilis IgG/IgM. |
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Optional PAP Smear as additional test |
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Collect sample at end of exposure. |
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At end of shift. |
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Avoid seafood and fish for 2-3 days before collection. |
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Sample must be labelled by hand with first name, family name and date of birth detailed on sample and form.
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Samples must arrive in the laboratory on the same day of sample taking or contact the laboratory.
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Patient should be fasting and resting for 30 mins before sample taking. Samples need handling urgently. |
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Renin: Sample collected either upright/active or resting /supine (3 hrs lying). |