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Test Code SFCL Chloride, CSF

Additional Codes

Hospital Ordering Code
LAB2023   CHLORIDE, CSF

Specimen Requirements

Container/Tube Type: 

Sterile CSF Container

 

Collection Information: 

Cerebrospinal Spinal Fluid

 

Transport Information: 

0.1 mL CSF

Performing Laboratory

Pathology Laboratory, UnityPoint Health, Des Moines

CPT

82438

Methodology

Ion selective electrode

Stability

Refrigerated Stability: 

7 days

 

Frozen Stability: 

Indefinitely

 

Ambient Stability: 

2 hours

Performance

Daily: 24 hours a day

 

Analytical Time: 

2 hours

 

Testing Laboratory: 

Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Pathology Laboratory

 

Laboratory Section: 

Core Laboratory

Alias

Cl (Chloride) Spinal Fluid