On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, some of the testing currently performed in the Critical Care Laboratory will be performed in the Core Clinical Laboratories (RCP 6240).  This is the first step in a multi-stage process to fully transfer all functions of the Critical Care Laboratory to the Core Laboratory.

• The initial phase impacts blood gas, whole blood electrolyte, osmolality, and activated clotting time (ACT) testing for specimens sent to the Critical Care Laboratory by Pneumatic Tube.  Effective on Tuesday, March 31, any samples sent by pneumatic tube system to the Critical Care Laboratory will be automatically forwarded to the Core Laboratory and analyzed immediately.
• Blood gas, whole blood electrolyte, osmolality or ACT samples hand-delivered to the Critical Care Laboratory will continue to be run there for the time being (an announcement will be made at a later date with further detail about hand-delivered specimens).

The Neonatal ICU laboratory is NOT impacted by any of these changes.

Questions should be directed to Matthew Krasowski, MD, PhD, medical director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory (384-9380, matthew-krasowski@uiowa.edu).