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| 84400:HALOPERIDOL (HALDOL) | |||||||||
| Alias Names: | Haldol | ||||||||
| Methodology: | High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) | ||||||||
| Edit Date: | 6/11/2010 | ||||||||
| Performed: | Monday, Wednesday, Friday | ||||||||
| Released: | 1-4 days after setup at PeaceHealth Laboratories’ reference lab. | ||||||||
| CPT Code: | 80173-90 | ||||||||
| Specimen Collection Details | |||||||||
| Collection: | One 5 mL red top tube. Also acceptable: 10 mL green top tube (sodium heparin) or 4 mL lavender top tube (EDTA) or 4 mL grey top tube (potassium oxalate/ sodium fluoride). Do not use serum separator tube (SST) or plasma separator tube (PST). | ||||||||
| Handling: | Allow to clot, centrifuge and separate serum or plasma from cells immediately. Freeze. Allow no more than one freeze/thaw cycle. | ||||||||
| Stability: | After separation, 4 hours ambient, 7 days refrigerated, or 1 month frozen. | ||||||||
| Standard Volume: | 2.5 mL serum or plasma. | ||||||||
| Minimum Volume: | 1.5 mL serum or plasma. | ||||||||
| Transport: | Frozen on dry ice. | ||||||||
| Rejection Criteria: | Specimen frozen and thawed more than once; use of SST or PST. | ||||||||
| Therapeutic range: 2.0-15.0 ng/mL. No range for children is available.
The therapeutic range relates to the management of psychoses; lower concentrations may be therapeutic for Tourette’s and mania. The toxic range is not well established. some patients experience toxicity within the therapeutic range. |
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