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Test Code GENTPE Gentamicin, Peak, Serum

Specimen Requirements

Draw blood in a plain, red-top tube(s), or green top tube(s)  30 minutes after completion of infusion of an intravenous dose or 1 hour after an intramuscular dose of gentamicin.  Spin down and send 1 mL of serum refrigerated.

Note:  Date and time of last dose is required on request form for processing.

Specimen Stability

Refrigerated -      7 days

Frozen-                4 weeks

Performing Laboratory

Conway Regional Clinical Laboratory Services

Reference Values

Therapeutic concentration:  4-8 µg/mL

Toxic concentration (automatic call-back):  >12 µg/mL 

Methodology

Cedia

Day(s) Test Set Up

Monday through Sunday

Available STAT

Test Classification and CPT Coding

80170