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Laboratory Information

Test Name

Triglyceride

External Price (excl. GST)

4.08

Specimen Collection

Pre Testing Requirements

Over night fast

Adult Specimen

Heparin (light green), SST (gold), "T-" labs SST (gold)

Paediatric Specimen

0.3 mL Heparin (light green) or Plain(red).

Test Information

Department

Biochemistry

Test Availability

Mon - Sun, 24hrs

Laboratory Turnaround Time

3 hrs

Method

Cobas Pro Colorometric Vitros XT7600 colorometric

Unit of measurement

mmol/L

Reference interval

See attachment

Reference interval Attachments

Lipid reporting ARQAG 2 (Lipid-reporting-ARQAG-2.pdf, 236 KB)

Uncertainty of measurement

Additional Information

Spurious values may occur after 24 hrs and up to 3 months following myocardial infarction. Fasting specimen - minimum of 9hrs fasting, but ideally 12 hrs.

Minimum Volume

0.1 mL heparin plasma or serum.

Electronic Information

Registration Code

TRIG

HL7 mapping code

$TRIG

LOINC Code

14927-8

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