1210 results found
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml Serum tube
Availability: Weekly
Collection Requirements: Dry swab (preferred) or Copan Gel swab (blue lid) or Copan e-swab (liquid Amies) blue lid.
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Urine (24 Hr Plain)
Collection Requirements: Urine (24 Hr plain)
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Light Green, Gold
Collection Requirements: 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin or 8.5 ml Serum
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Light Green, Gold
Collection Requirements: 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin or 8.5 ml Serum
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Urine (random)
Collection Requirements: 10 ml Urine (random)
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Urine (24 Hr Plain)
Collection Requirements: Urine (24 Hr plain). * Lithium heparin tube also required for creatinine (U&E) for calculation of clearance result.
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Urine (24 Hr Plain)
Collection Requirements: Urine (24 Hr plain)
Availability: Daily
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) - (CSF) Protein (14-3-3)
Tube colour: CSF Sterile Tube Pack
Collection Requirements: Collect using disposable equipment and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Collect 2 ml CSF. Place the tube in pathology bag labelled as 'CJD Risk'.
Send to pathology URGENTLY.
Availability: Weekly
Crimean Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever PCR
Tube colour: Lavender, Yellow top universal
Collection Requirements: 9 ml EDTA and a Respiratory Swab. Please contact the pathology service BEFORE collection.
Availability: On request
Tube colour: Gold At 37oC
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml Serum kept at 37oC. Special flask and tubes obtained from Biochemistry staff. Samples to be collected Monday to Friday 0600-1600hrs ONLY.
Availability: Daily (Mon - Fri)
Collection Requirements: Contact Pathology (Haematology) if collection requirement details are required
Availability: By arrangement
Tube colour: CSF Sterile Tube Pack
Collection Requirements: 1 ml CSF in sterile black top CSF tube
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Yellow top universal
Collection Requirements: Fresh faeces
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: 10mL yellow top, conical base, sterile polypropylene tube.
Collection Requirements: >2mL CSF collected directly into polypropylene tube.
Last collection required to minimise contamination.
Transport within 24 hours of lumbar puncture (ambient temperature) otherwise spin (10min at 2000g within 2 hour of collection) & freeze at -20oC, and transport on dry ice
Availability: Fortnightly turn around time
CSF Biochemistry (Glucose and Protein)
Tube colour: CSF Sterile Tube Pack
Collection Requirements: 2 ml Cerebrospinal fluid
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: CSF Sterile Tube Pack
Collection Requirements: Fresh - Keep sample refrigerated.
For CJD risk - See notes.
Availability: Weekdays
Tube colour: CSF Sterile Tube Pack
Collection Requirements: Sterile black topped tubes numbered 1, 2, 3. Extra 2 ml for TB, extra 2 ml for Fungi. Procedure for collecting CSF is described in the Patient Procedure Manual. Consult Medical Microbiologist if Mycobacterial culture, viral culture, syphilis serology or cryptococcal antigen
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Black Capped CSF Tube In Foil
Collection Requirements: 2 ml Cerebrospinal Fluid, CSF, 4 tubes, [the fourth, light
protected] and 5 ml blood, lithium-heparin tube. The specimens must be delivered by hand. Specimens sent in the pneumatic tube will be rejected. Refer to full collection protocol.
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Pink, Lavender
Collection Requirements: Please collect 6 or 9 ml EDTA tube. 3ml tube can be utilised if required.
Availability: Weekly
Tube colour: Light Green, Lavender
Collection Requirements: 4.5mL Lithium Heparin or EDTA
Availability: Monthly
Tube colour: Yellow Top Universal
Collection Requirements: Fresh - Keep sample refrigerated.
Availability: Weekdays
Tube colour: Gold, Light Green
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml Serum or 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Weekly
Tube colour: Urine (random)
Collection Requirements: 10 ml Urine (random)
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Urine (random)
Collection Requirements: 10 ml Urine (random)
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Urine (random)
Collection Requirements: 10 ml Urine (random)
Availability: Fortnightly
Collection Requirements: Lithium Heparin with no Gel
Tube colour: Light Blue
Collection Requirements: Sodium Citrate Tube (Coagulation)
Availability: 24 hours
Tube colour: Gold, Light Green
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml Serum or 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin
Availability: Fortnightly
Deaminated Gliadin Peptide IgG
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Weekly
Tube colour: Light Green
Collection Requirements: 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin
Availability: Fortnightly
Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Weekly
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Daily (Mon - Fri)
Tube colour: Lavender
Collection Requirements: 9 ml EDTA
Availability: On request
Tube colour: Sterile container
Collection Requirements: CSF
Availability: On request
Tube colour: Yellow Top Universal
Collection Requirements: Urine
Availability: On request
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Daily (Mon - Fri)
Tube colour: Gold, Light Green
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml Serum or 4.5 ml Lithium Heparin
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Yellow top universal
Collection Requirements: Nail clipping collected in sterile container
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Yellow top universal
Collection Requirements: Skin scraping collected in sterile container
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Fortnightly
Tube colour: Yellow Top Univesal
Collection Requirements: Device collected into sterile container
Availability: Daily
Tube colour: Gold
Collection Requirements: 8.5 ml serum tube
Availability: Fortnightly