Inpatient and Outpatient Orderable

Corticosterone Level

Synonyms

  • CORTICOSTERONE LEVEL
  • CORTICOSTERONE, SERUM
  • LAB969

Cerner Name

Corticosterone, Serum

Clinical Info

Specimen Sources

Blood, Arterial Blood, Capillary Blood, Central Line Blood, Venous

Specimen Types

Blood

Container

Gold Top Tube

Collection Instructions

Container/Tube:  Gold-top tube(s)
Specimen:  2 mL of serum (0.2 mL  min)
Transport Temperature: Frozen serum
Stability: 3 Days Refrigerated
                300 Days Frozen

Specimen Volume

2 mL of serum (0.2 mL  min)

Transport Instructions

Frozen serum

Specimen Stability

3 Days Refrigerated
                300 Days Frozen

Methodology

 
High-pressure liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS-MS)
 

Days Performed

Tuesday

Performing Laboratory

Esoterix

CPT

82528

PDM

5908150

Only Orderable at Locations:

Orderable Everywhere

Results

Component Name Base Name Common Name External Name
CORTICOSTERONE SERUM CORTSER CORTICOSTERONE SERUM Corticosterone Serum

Result Interpretation

See report.

Forms

LAB969 build edit