| Test CODE | NAME |
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122
Lactate/Lactic Acid, Plasma
| Methodology: | Enzymatic |
| Performed: | Sun-Sat |
| Reported: | 2 days |
| Specimen Required: | Patient Preparation: Patient should be fasting and at complete rest. Patient should avoid any exercise of the arm or hand before or during collection. Draw the specimen without the use of a tourniquet or within three minutes of applying the tourniquet, but before releasing the tourniquet.
Collect: Gray (sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate) - 1 ml plasma. Collect on ice.
Specimen Preparation: Immediately chill specimen; do not freeze whole blood. Centrifuge specimen within 15 minutes of collection.
Storage/Transport Temperature: Refrigerated.
Stability: After separation from cells: Ambient: Unacceptable; Refrigerated: 1 week
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| CPT Code(s): | 83605 |