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Performing Laboratory
Rutland Regional Medical Center Laboratory
Specimen Requirements
Specimen Type: Whole blood
Container/Tube: Serum
Preferred: Light-green top (lithium heparin gel)
Acceptable: Gold top, serum gel
Specimen Volume: Full tube
Specimen Minimum Volume: 2 mL
Collection Instructions:
1. Send specimen in original tube.
2. If there is a delay in transport of >2 hour, centrifuge tube.
3. Refrigerate up to 7 days.
Specimen Transport Temperature
Refrigerated
Reference Values
Adult (>18yo):
30 - 200 mg/dL
Note: For children under 18 years of age, haptoglobin has lower physiological serum concentrations and therefore is not suitable for hemolysis testing; no reference range will be applied to this group.
Day(s) Performed
Daily
Analytical Time:
1 Day
Available STAT
Methodology
Nephelometric measurement
Test Classification and CPT Coding
CPT: 83010
LOINC: 46127-7
Order code: L701008
Result code: L802600