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Order Set Tests included Colour of tubes needed When to use

Admission bloods Profile

  • Full blood Count
  • Urea, creat, electrolytes
  • CRP
  • Calcium and albumin
  • LFTs
  • Glucose
  • Red
  • Brown
  • Yellow
On admission to CAU
Allogeneic transplant FU
  • Full blood count
  • Urea, creat, electrolytes
  • Calcium and albumin
  • LFTs
  • GGT
  • Magnesium
  • Ciclosporin
  • Full blood Count
  • EBV Quantitative PCR Profile
  • CMV Quantitative PCR Profile
  • Red x 2
  • Brown
  • Big red tube or blue tube

For patients who are post Allogeneic transplant and are attending for a review.

If not on ciclosporin, delete and change to tacrolimus level test instead.

(immunosuppressant drug not to be taken prior to blood test)

Autologous transplant FU
  • Full blood count
  • Urea, creat, electrolytes
  • Calcium and albumin
  • LFTs
  • GGT
  • Red
  • Brown
For patients who are post Autograft transplant and are attending for a review.
Haematology Septic Screen
  • Respiratory virus screen and SARS-CoV2
  • C&S Swabs x 4
  • Mycology FUNGI Ix – swab/tape/miscellaneous

[area swabbed to be inputed, see Haematology septic screen policy]

  • Red top specimen tube
  • Blue specimen tubes with transport medium
For haematology patients who spiked a temperature of 38 or above, or weekly if patients continue to be pyrexial.

New SACT WGH

  • Full blood count
  • Urea, creat, electrolytes
  • CRP
  • Calcium and albumin
  • LFTs
  • Alk Phos
  • LDH
  • Magnesium
  • Phosphate
  • HbA1C
  • HIV Ag/Ab antibody screen
  • Hepatitis C antibody (HCV) IgG screen
  • Hepatitis B Core IgG Ab
  • Red x 2
  • Brown x 2

 

Prior to commencing first cycle of SACT within the Western

Pre Chemotherapy

  • Full blood count
  • Urea, creat, electrolytes
  • Calcium and albumin
  • LFTs
  • GGT
  • Magnesium
  • Red
  • Brown
Patients who are attending for bloods prior to SACT
Sepsis 6 Oncology
  • Blood Culture x 2
  • Full blood count
  • Coag screen
  • Cortisol
  • Glucose
  • CRP
  • Lactate
  • LFTs
  • Urea, creat, electrolytes
  • Adapter or white tubes and blue and red culture bottles
  • Red
  • Green
  • Yellow
  • Brown
Patients who have spiked a temperature of 38 and above
Tumourlysis bloods
  • Urate
  • Magnesium
  • Phopshate
  • Calcium and albumin
  • Urea, creat, electrolytes
  • Brown

(If patient has had raspuricase bloods must be taken down to labs on ice)

Pre SACT and 6 hourly post SACT for patients at risk of tumourlysis