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Digoxin, Free
MessageQuest Wildcode needed.
Call Carrie x4171 or Amber x4173
Call Carrie x4171 or Amber x4173
Test Code
LAB00362
Alias/See Also
LAB00362
CPT Codes
80163
Preferred Specimen
1 mL Serum
Marble/Gold/Red
Marble/Gold/Red
Patient Preparation
Draw blood 6 to 8 hours after last dose of digoxin.
Minimum Volume
0.5 mL
Instructions
Collect in a Serum gel tube. Also acceptable in a Red top tube. Draw blood 6 to 8 hours after last dose of digoxin. Serum gel tubes should be centrifuged within 2 hours of collection. Red-top tubes should be centrifuged and aliquoted within 2 hrs of collection.
Transport Temperature
Refrigerated
Specimen Stability
Refrigerated: 7 days
Clinical Significance
Evaluating recrudescent (breakthrough) digoxin toxicity in renal-failure patients.
Assessing the need for more antidigoxin Fab to be administered.
Deciding when to reintroduce digoxin therapy.
Monitoring patients with possible digoxin-like immunoreactive factors.
Assessing the need for more antidigoxin Fab to be administered.
Deciding when to reintroduce digoxin therapy.
Monitoring patients with possible digoxin-like immunoreactive factors.
Performing Laboratory
Send to Quest Diagnostics, they will send onto Mayo Clinic Laboratories