Specimen Requirements

Draw blood in a lavender-top (EDTA) tube(s), and send EDTA whole blood. Mix by gently inverting 8 times. Forward unprocessed whole blood promptly at ambient temperature only. Do not refrigerate.

Note: 

1. If requesting as a physician request, reason for pathology review is required.

2. CBCD (LAB293) must be ordered in conjunction with the Pathologist Interpretation.

3. A pathologist interpretation is only performed whenever the laboratory’s established review criteria has been met.