Creatine Kinase Test Tube Color
Serum gel tubes should be centrifuged within 2 hours of collection.
Creatine kinase test tube color. Laboratory specimen tube type collection chart draw in the order shown on the chart from left to right order label at the bedside timely delivery to the lab mix all tubes gently 5 10 times by inverting immediately after collection. Elevated results may be due to. Creatine kinase activity is useful in evaluating diseases of the heart skeletal muscle and brain. What is a creatine kinase ck test.
612 813 6280 stp lab. Creatine kinase ck chemistry sst tiger top. This test measures the amount of creatine kinase ck in the blood. Blood test tube colors and meanings.
For guidance on specimen collection or availability of other tests please bleep the duty biochemist on 1417. 1 ck is increased in female carriers of this x linked disease and in. If a container is stated as â yellowâ red tubes can be used if the request includes assays that can only be performed on tests requiring blood collected into a red tube. The ck mb isoenzyme which has a molecular mass of approximately 87 kilodaltons accounts for 5 to 50 of total ck activity in myocardium.
Tests and tube color phlebotomy. Creatine kinase ck total test for myocardial infarction and skeletal muscle damage. Skeletal muscles are the muscles attached to your skeleton. Ck mm ck 3 ck mb ck 2 and ck bb ck 1 built from subunits designated m and b.
Ck is a marker for duchenne muscular dystrophy with elevations of 20 to 200 times normal. Red top tubes should be centrifuged and aliquoted within 2 hours of collection. Ck is a type of protein known as an enzyme. Test for acute myocardial infarct and for skeletal muscular damage.
It is mostly found in your skeletal muscles and heart with lesser amounts in the brain. Blood test color tube. Elevated in some patients with myxedema hypothyroidism malignant hyperthermia syndrome and muscular dystrophy. Daily 24 hours turnaround time.
Color blocks below correspond to patient bedside visual reference used at sph following mistake proofing.