Drugs of Abuse Confirmation/Quantitation - Opiates
Order Code: OPICON
Epic Lab Code: LAB2496
Commercial Mail-out Laboratory
6240 RCP
356-3527
Specimen:
Serum or Plasma
Collection Medium:
Pink top tube
Alternate Collection Media:
Red top tube
Minimum:
Collect TWO full 6 mL pink K2 EDTA top tubes. Adult preferred minimum: 4.0 mL serum or plasma Adult/Pediatric absolute minimum: 2.0 mL serum or plasma
Rejection Criteria:
Specimens exposed to repeated freeze/thaw cycles. Separator tubes and plasma or whole blood from lt. blue (sodium citrate).
Analytic Time:
5 days upon receipt at reference laboratory
Interpretive Data:
For medical purposes only; not valid for employment drug testing. Drugs covered: codeine, morphine, 6-acetylmorphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and oxycodone. Positive cutoff: 2 ng/mL The absence of expected drug(s) and/or drug metabolite(s) may indicate non-compliance, inappropriate timing of specimen collection relative to drug administration, poor drug absorption, or limitations of testing. The concentration value must be greater than or equal to the cutoff to be reported as positive.
Methodology:
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and/or Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
CPT Code:
83925