Test:

Cyanide, Whole Blood (CTCYN)

  • FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE/CHEMICAL TERRORISM ONLY
  • CALL 24/7 PAGER (402) 888-5588 PRIOR TO SAMPLE SUBMISSION
 
  Synonym:  
  Method:

Headspace Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry HSGC-MS

 
  Availability:

Emergency Response Performed Immediately

Same Day reporting

 
  Specimen:

Whole Blood

 
  Collection Device:

Lavendar Top EDTA  Tube preferred

Green Top Heparin Tube may also be used

 
  Volume:

Optimum: 3 mL

Minimum: 1 mL if in a vacutainer, 0.3 mL if in a microtainer

 
  Storage/Transport:

Samples should be refrigerated at 2-8 ºC or frozen at -20 ºC within 30 minutes of collection

 
  Unacceptable:
  • Low volume (<1 mL in a vacutainer or <0.3 mL in a microtainer)
  • Failure to maintain refrigerated or frozen temperatures
  • Suspected contamination
  • Damaged collection tubes
  • Clotted Samples
 
  Specimen Stability:

4 weeks at 2-8 ºC

6 monts at -20 ºC

 
  Reference Interval:
Refence Interval:    
0-140 µg/L
 
  Reportable Disease:  
  Comments:

FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE/CHEMICAL TERRORISM ONLY

CALL 24/7 PAGER (402) 888-5588 PRIOR TO SAMPLE SUBMISSION

 
  Revised: 5/16/2023