light blue top tube
A green or dark green tube is typically used for collecting blood samples for bilirubin testing. These tubes contain heparin as an anticoagulant.
A lavender or purple-topped tube is typically used for a magnesium blood draw.
The tubes used for fasting glucose is the SST tubes. The tubes are clear in color. The stoppers for the tubes are gold and red gray in color. The tubes contain a gel inside for separating the blood.
Lavender tubes are typically used to collect blood for a Complete Blood Count (CBC), while light blue tubes are used for a Prothrombin Time (Protime) test.
Purple-top tubes, also known as EDTA tubes, are commonly used for hematology tests because the anticoagulant EDTA helps preserve blood cell morphology and inhibits clotting.
A green-colored tube is typically used to draw blood for lipase testing.
A lavender or purple tube is typically used for TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) blood draw.
Typically, a lavender or purple-top tube is used to collect a blood sample for protein electrophoresis testing. These tubes contain EDTA as an anticoagulant to prevent clotting and preserve the blood sample for analysis.
A lavender-topped (EDTA) tube is commonly used to draw blood for a complete blood count (CBC) without a differential count.
The color top commonly used for a Complete Blood Count (CBC) draw is lavender. This tube contains the anticoagulant ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) to preserve the blood sample and prevent it from clotting.
A red or gold-top tube is typically used for testing herpes virus antibodies. These tubes usually contain a clot activator and gel separator to obtain serum for testing.
A red-topped blood tube is commonly used to draw blood samples for titer testing. This type of tube typically contains a clot activator and is used for serum collection.