POWERCHART NAME

Diagnostic H1N1

MERCY TEST NAME

MERCY LAB CODE

CMIS

Specimen:

Nasal, nasopharyngeal or throat swab, or nasal aspirate

Collection:

• Nasal, nasopharyngeal and throat swabs must be collected using a sterile Dacron, nylon, or rayon swab with a plastic shaft. 
• Nasal aspirate specimens should be collected in a sterile, screw-capped container.  
• DO NOT use calcium alginate swabs
• The swab or nasal aspirate should be placed in M4 viral media or V-C-M medium (green cap) immediately after collection  
• Send the viral transport medium, containing the specimen, to Mercy lab refrigerated.  

Performed:

Specimen sent to Mayo Medical Labs (order code FH1N1). Specimen will then be forwarded to Focus Diagnostics, Inc.

Reference value:

Not Detected

Method:

RT-PCR

CPT Code:

87502

TEST NAME

HALOPERIDOL SERUM*

MERCY TEST NAME

MISC GENERAL LAB

MERCY LAB CODE

CMIS

Haloperidol Therapeutic range: 5-16 ng/ml
Reduced Haloperidol: 10 – 8 ng/ml

POWERCHART NAME

HAPTOGLOBIN

MERCY TEST NAME

HAPTOGLOBIN        

MERCY LAB CODE

HAPT

• Fasting specimen is recommended
• Preferred in house: 0.5 ml lithium heparin plasma from a PST tube.
• Preferred reference lab: 0.5 ml serum from a SST tube.
• Also acceptable: Sodium Heparin,  EDTA plasma, and serum from a plain red top tube. 
• Cause for rejection includes hemolysis and highly lipemic samples.

Monday-Friday  0900 cutoff

44-215 mg/dl

Immunoturbidimetric

POWERCHART NAME

HCG QUANTITATIVE

MERCY TEST NAME

HCG QUANT SERUM   

MERCY LAB CODE

HCGQ

• Preferred in house: 0.5 ml serum from a SST tube.
• Preferred reference lab: 0.5 ml serum from a SST tube.
• Also acceptable: serum from a plain red top tube or heparin plasma from a green top tube.

Stable 8 hours at room temperature.  Stable 48 hours refrigerated.  Freeze if testing is not completed within 48 hours of collection.

Regional Lab Clients:  Freeze if not received at Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa Laboratory within 48 hours of collection.

HCG is not normally detected in the serum of healthy men and healthy non-pregnant women.

Male:  0-3 IU/L

Non-Pregnant Female: 0-3 IU/L

Gestational age:
1 week: 5 - 50 IU/L
1-2 weeks: 50 - 500  IU/L
2-3 weeks: 100 - 5,000 IU/L
3-4 weeks: 500 - 10,000 IU/L
4-5 weeks: 1,000 - 50,000 IU/L
5-6 weeks: 10,000 - 100,000 IU/L
6-8 weeks: 15,000 - 200,000 IU/L
8-12 weeks: 10,000 - 100,000  IU/L
3rd trimester: 5,000 - 50,000  IU/L

During the first six weeks of pregnancy, serum HCG concentrations have a doubling time of approximately 2 days. A maximum is reached by the second to third month and followed by a decrease to as low as 5000 by the third trimester (6-9 months).  Following delivery, HCG concentrations rapidly decrease and usually return to normal within several days post partum.

TEST NAME

HCGS QUALITATIVE

See:Pregnancy Test Qualitative Serum

POWERCHART NAME

HCG (HUMAN CHRONIC GRONADOTROPIN) TUMOR MARKER

MERCY TEST NAME

HCG TUMOR MARKER* 

MERCY LAB CODE

HCGM

TEST NAME

HCGU QUALITATIVE

See:Pregnancy Test Urine

TEST NAME

HCT (Hematocrit)

See: Hematocrit, Hemogram, Platelet Ct, CBC,  
          Pericardial Hemoglobin & Hematocrit

POWERCHART NAME

HDL CHOLESTEROL

MERCY TEST NAME

HDL CHOL

MERCY LAB CODE

HDL

• Preferred in house: 0.5 ml lithium heparin plasma from a PST tube.
• Preferred reference lab: 0.5 ml serum from a SST tube.
• Also acceptable: Sodium Heparin, EDTA plasma, and serum from a plain red top tube.

The National Cholesterol Education Program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has announced the following guidelines:

  Low:              <40mg/dl   
  Acceptable:   40-59 mg/dl   
  Optimal:        ≥60 mg/dl

TEST NAME

HEART CRP

See: CRP Sens (Cardiac)

TEST NAME

HELICOBACTER PYLORI (BREATH)

See: Urea Breath Test

TEST NAME

HELICOBACTER PYLORI SERUM

See: Helicobactor Serology  

POWERCHART NAME

HELICOBACTER PYLORI ANTIBODY IgG/H. PYLORI ANTIBODY IgG

MERCY TEST NAME

HELICOBACTER SERO 

MERCY LAB CODE

HPYL

POWERCHART NAME

HELICOBACTER PYLORI FECES / H.PYLORI FECES

MERCY TEST NAME

H.PYLORI FECES*  

MERCY LAB CODE

HPSTL

POWERCHART NAME

H. PYLORI RAPID UREA

MERCY TEST NAME

HELICOBACTER SCRN  

MERCY LAB CODE

HELI

Specimen:

Gastric mucosal biopsy, 2-3 mm in diameter.  Biopsy should be from normal looking tissue, and be embedded in CLOtest slide for transport to the Laboratory.  Record on the label of the CLOtest, patient name and the date and time biopsy inoculated into the agar.

• Patients should not have taken antibiotics or bismuth salts for at least 3 weeks prior to endoscopy/ biopsy.
• CLOtest media should be prewarmed to 30-40 degrees C.

Comment:  

This organism is very fastidious and the specimen should be transported to the Laboratory immediately.

Performed:

1 day

Reference value: 

Negative for Helicobacter pylori

Method:

Rapid urease production

CPT Code:

87077

TEST NAME

HELICOBACTER SCREEN

MERCY TEST NAME

HELICOBACTER SCN

Order:

Use pink Pathology Specimen Form for ordering. Write on request form "Look for Helicobacter".

Specimen:

Gastric mucosal biopsy, 2-3 mm in diameter.

• Biopsy should be from normal looking tissue.
• Patients should not have taken antibiotics or bismuth salts for at least 3 weeks prior to endoscopy/ biopsy.
• Place specimen in 10% formalin.

Processing:

Send to Lab immediately.

Method:

Histological stain

Reference value:

No Helicobacter identified.

Performed:

1 week

CPT Code:

87072

POWERCHART NAME

HEMATOCRIT

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMATOCRIT

MERCY LAB CODE

HCTX

POWERCHART NAME

HEMOCCULT, DIAGNOSTIC
HEMOCCULT, SCREENING

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMOCCULT, DIAGNOST
HEMOCCULT, SCREENING

MERCY LAB CODE

HEMC
NHOS

• The Diagnostic order should be placed if the patient has documented symptoms.
• The Screening order should be placed if the testing is being preformed in the absence of documentation.
• This is for stool specimens only. See GASTROCCULT BODY FLUID for all other body fluids.

• Patients should be placed on the Special Diagnostic Diet starting at least 48 hours prior to and continuing through the test period.  This diet can increase the accuracy of the test results. 
• Patients on unrestricted diets who test positive on one or more of the initial 3 slides is recommended to be retested after being placed on the special diet.See page 21 in the SPECIAL HELPS SECTION of the Lab Test Index for Hemoccult (Occult Blood Feces) special diagnostic diet.

• Fresh, unpreserved stool specimen
• NOTE:  Fecal samples should not be collected if hematuria or obvious rectal bleeding, such as from hemorrhoids, is present.  Pre-menopausal women should not collect fecal samples during or in the 3 days following a menstrual period.
• Collect a small fecal sample on one end of the applicator stick (may use tongue depressor)  Apply a small thin smear inside box A.  Use the other end of the applicator to obtain a second sample from a different area of the stool.  Apply a thin smear inside box B and close the cover. 
• The test slide MUST be labeled with patient first and last name, date and time of collection.

POWERCHART NAME

HEMOGLOBIN

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMOGLOBIN

MERCY LAB CODE

HGBX

POWERCHART NAME

HEMOGLOBIN A1C

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMOGLOBIN A1C

MERCY LAB CODE

GLYCO

0.5 ml EDTA whole blood from purple top tube or 1 full purple capillary tube.  Refrigerate.

Monday through Friday 2300 cutoff
Sunday 1000 cutoff

POWERCHART NAME

HEMOGLOBIN ELECTROPHORESIS

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMOGLBN ELECT*

MERCY LAB CODE

HGBE

Hgb electrophoresis cascade will always include: Hemoglobin A(2) and F and hemoglobin electrophoresis.

Additional tests are performed as indicated. Mayo Lab indicates that about 9% of patient specimens require more testing.

Reflex testing is performed at additional charge, and may include any or all of the following as indicated to identify rare hemoglobin variant(s) present: hgb S screen, unstable hgb, IEF confirms, hemoglobin variant by mass spec, hgb F red cell distribution, beta-globin gene, large del/dup, alpha-globin gene sequencing, and beta-globin gene sequencing.

• Send refrigerated to Mayo.  Mayo #81626. 
• DO NOT allow to freeze. 
• Use bubble wrap to protect specimen.
• Do NOT transfer specimen to other containters.
• Include recent transfusion information. 
• Patient's age is required.
• Please complete a Thalassemia/Hemoglobinopathy Information Sheet and forward with specimen.

83341: Cation Exchange/High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
81428: Capillary Electrophoresis
9180: Hemoglobin S Solubility
9095: Isopropanol Stability
81644: Isoelectric Focusing
8270: Flow Cytometry
60286: Mass Spectrometry (MS)
29374: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Analysis/Multiplex
Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA), PolymeraseChain Reaction (PCR)/DNA Sequencing (PCR is utilized pursuant to a license agreement with Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.)

"Hemoglobin Electrophoresis Cascade"
83020-Quantitation by electrophoresis
83021-Quantitation by HPLC
"IEF Confirms"
82664 -Electrophoresis, not elsewhere specified (if appropriate)
"Hemoglobin, Unstable, Blood"
83068 (if appropriate)
"Hemoglobin Variant by Mass Spectrometry (MS), Blood"
83789 (if appropriate)
"Hemoglobin Electrophoresis, Molecular"
83891-Isolation or extraction of highly purified nucleic acid (if appropriate)
83898 x 4-Amplification, target, each nucleic acid sequence (if appropriate)
83900-Amplification, target, multiplex, first 2 nucleic acid sequences (if appropriate)
83904 x 12-Mutation identification by sequencing, single segment, each segment (if appropriate)
83909 x 13-Separation and identification by high-resolution technique (if appropriate)
83914 x 8-Mutation identification by enzymatic ligation or primer extension, single segment, each segment (if appropriate)
"Hemoglobin S, Screen, Blood"
85660 (if appropriate)
"Hemoglobin F, Red Blood Cell Distribution, Blood"
88184 (if appropriate)
88184/Hemoglobin F, RBC distribution (if appropriate

TEST NAME

HEMOGLOBIN PLASMA*

See: Plasma Hemoglobin

POWERCHART NAME

HEMOGLOBIN S SCREEN

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMOGLBN S SCN*

MERCY LAB CODE

HGBS

• Specimen cannot be FROZEN! 
• Use bubble wrap to protect specimen.

• Include recent transfusion information in the Mayo computer system. 
• Send refrigerated to Mayo.   Mayo # 9180.

POWERCHART NAME

HEMOGRAM WITH PLATELET COUNT

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMOGRAM PLATELET CT

MERCY LAB CODE

See: CBC

POWERCHART NAME

HEMOQUANT FECES

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMOQUANT,FECES*   

MERCY LAB CODE

HMQF

• Patient should be instructed to refrain from red meat and aspirin for 3 days prior to specimen collection. 
• IMPORTANT:  Note on order whether patient has complied with instructions.

• 1 gram of feces from a single defecation is to be collected using a spoon-like sampler from the kit supplied by the Laboratory. 
• Place sample in screw-capped tube.

• Send refrigerated to Mayo. 
• If refrigerated specimen cannot arrive at Mayo within 24 hours of collection, the specimen must be sent FROZEN. 
• Mayo # 9220.

POWERCHART NAME

HEMOSIDERIN QUALITATIVE URINE

MERCY TEST NAME

HEMOSDRIN R UR*   

MERCY LAB CODE

HMDR

• 13 ml random urine.  Minimum 12 ml. 
• No preservative. 

Send refrigerated to Mayo. Frozen acceptable.  Mayo # 8582. , UHSD

POWERCHART NAME

HEPARIN UNFRACTIONATED LEVEL

MERCY TEST NAME

HEPARIN UNFRAC

MERCY LAB CODE

HEPR

• Used to monitor dose of unfractionated Heparin. 
• To monitor low molecular weight heparin, order Factor X A.

• Improperly filled tubes will NOT be tested. 
• Gross hemolysis unacceptable. 

• Centrifuge within 30 minutes.
• Seperate plasma within 2 hours and analyze within 8 hours. 
• Double spin and freeze plasma if testing not done within 8 hours of collection.
• Label vial "Citrated Plasma".

Double spin coagulation specimens to ensure that all platelets are removed:     1.  Centrifuge specimen.  Aliquot plasma (leaving some above the cells) to a plastic centrifuge tube.   2.  Centrifuge the aliquot tube.  Pipette plasma (leaving some above the bottom of the tube) to another plastic aliquot tube.   3.  Store plasma as required for the test ordered.

TEST NAME

HEPARIN ANTI-XA ASSAY

See: Factor X A

TEST NAME

HEPARIN ASSOCIATED THROMBOCYTOPENIA, SERUM

See: Heparin PF4 AB or  
HIT Screen  (Done at Mercy)

TEST NAME

HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA SCREEN

MERCY TEST NAME

HIT SCREEN (DONE AT MERCY)

MERCY LAB CODE

HITSCR

• 1.0 ml serum from a plain red top tube.
• Remove serum from red cells within 1 hour of draw time. 
• DO NOT Freeze.

TEST NAME

HEPARIN PF4 ANTIBODY

MERCY TEST NAME

HEPARIN PF4 AB

MERCY LAB CODE

HITPF4