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Order of Blood Draw
Boys Ride Bikes So Little Girls Love Games
Question | Answer |
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B-Boys | For blood cultures= aeorbic-blue fill first and anerobic-red, growth medium additive; yellow-pediatric bottle |
R-Ride | Plain Red Tube= clearing tube, no additive |
B-Bikes | Light Blue Tube= has to be full and has the additive sodium citrate |
S-So | SST tube= Serum Separator Tube/ tiger top, has a clot activator; also a gold tube |
L-Little | light green tube=PST tube or Plasma Separator Tube, has lithium heparin gel in it as activator |
G-Girls | Green tube, lithium heparin and has no gel |
L-Love | Lavender tube, EDTA in it |
G-games | gray tube used for sugars and glucose tests and has sodium fluoride and potassium oxalate |
ACD | Acid Citrate Dextrose, light yellow tube |
Bilirubin | Gold tube with same as SST |
Heavy metal testing | royal blue tube with EDTA |
AIDS | pearl tube, EDTA plasma separator gel in it. |