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medical health medical testsWhat is the correct order of tubes when drawing blood?
The correct order of draw follows: Blood culture tube or bottle. Sodium citrate tube (eg, blue closure) Serum tubes, including those with clot activator and gels (eg, red, red-speckled, gold closures)
Keeping this in view, what is the order of draw for blood collection tubes?
The draw order for specimen tubes is as follows: Gold SST (Plain tube w/gel and clot activator additive) Green and Dark Green (Heparin, with and without gel) Lavender (EDTA) Pink - Blood Bank (EDTA)
- Boys – Blood Culture.
- Love – Light Blue.
- Ravishing – Red.
- Girls – Gold.
- Like – Light Green.
- Dieters – Dark green.
- Love – Lavender.
- Greek – Gray.
Also Know, what is the order of draw by tube color?
Standard order of draw: BLOOD CULTURES, royal blue, red, light blue, SST (Gold), green, tan, yellow, pink, pearl, lavender. If a coag tube (light blue) is the only tube or the first tube to be drawn, a 5 mL discard tube must be drawn first.
This standard recommends that EDTA tubes be drawn first to ensure good quality specimen, followed by other additive tubes and finally, serum specimen tubes.