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Test Code PC Prepare Red Blood Cells for Transfusion

Important Note

Patients with no NMC blood bank history and being transfused for the first time require 2 blood typings from 2 separate collections.

Emergency Release

Blood may be released emergently prior to the completion of compatibility testing in critical situations. Contact the blood bank and request emergent release blood. 

Providers will be required to sign the Emergency Blood Release form and return it to the blood bank.

Specimen Information

Container Specimen Temperature Collect Vol Submit Vol Min Vol Stability
Pink Top Whole Blood Refrigerate 4 mL 4 mL 4 mL 7 Days
Red Top Whole Blood Refrigerate 4 mL 4 mL 4 mL 7 Days

Pink top tube preferred, however, a plain red top is also acceptable.

Serum gel tubes are not acceptable for testing.

Specimens must be labeled with the patient's full legal name (no nick-names), date of birth, date and time of collection, and an identifier of the collector (initials or employee ID number).

Hemolyzed samples are not acceptable for testing.

Instrumentation / Method

Manual / Test Tube

Test Schedule / Analytical Time / Test Priority

Daily / Same Day / Available STAT

CPT / LOINC

CPT: 

ABO: 86900

Rh: 86901

Antibody Screen: 86850

XM-IS: 86920

XM-AHG: 86922

LOINC: