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Outpatient Drawing Station Hours/Location

 

Main Phone # - 907-1637

 

LABORATORY DIRECTOR

Billie-Jo Sickler, MT (ASCP) Phone: 907-1650

bsickler@covh.org

                                                  EPIC/SQ CROSSWALK

 

OTHER DEPARTMENTAL INFORMATION

SJH COMMUNICATION

 

LAB COMMUNICATION


GENERAL TEST INFORMATION

 

Testing Algorithms

SPECIMEN COLLECTION

CLINIC INFORMATION

PROCESSING INFORMATION

 

ACCREDITATIONS AND CERTIFICATES

 

WEBSITES

Mayo Clinic Laboratories

Test Code Sodium Sodium

Abbrev

NA

Storage Temperature

R (2-8ºC)

ASTM/HL7/SDF 1

SQ=NA

EPIC=LAB122

Instrument/Location

Beckman DXC 700 AU

Specimen Requirements

Specimen
Type: Serum or Plasma (Lithium Heparin)

 

Container/Tube
Type: Gold Top or Lt. Green Top.

 

Collection
Instructions: Draw tube and label appropriately.
Allow Gold top tubes to clot for 30 minutes. Spin tubes within
2
hours.

 

Note: Hemolyzed Specimens
are
not acceptable.

Specimen Transport Temperature

Spun tube/Refrigerated

Reference Values

136-145 mmol/L

 

Critical Values: <120 mmol/L or >155 mmol/L

Methodology

Indirect Potentiometry

Specimen stability/Retention time

7 days refrigerated