The University of Iowa (UIHC)
Department of Pathology
LABORATORY SERVICES HANDBOOK


Amiodarone
Order Code: AMIO
Order Form: A-1a Miscellaneous Request or IPR Req
  Commercial "Mail-out" Laboratory
6240 RCP
356-3527
Specimen
Serum or Plasma
Collection Medium:
or
Red top tube Green top tube (Na Heparin)
Minimum:
Absolute minimum: 0.5 mL serum in red top tube or 0.5 mL heparinized 
plasma
Rejection Criteria:
Gel separator tubes
Analytic Time:
1 week
Reference Range:
500 - 2500 ng/mL
Critical Value:  5000 ng/mL
Comments:
Includes Desethylamiodarone.
Methodology:
High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Ultraviolet Detection 
(HPLC-UV)
CPT Code:
82492
 
See Additional Information:
Commercial (Mailout) Critical Lab Values

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Updated: 07/11/2008

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