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UCSF Clinical Laboratories Hours Of Laboratory Operation, Test Availability And Routine Run Times

UCSF Clinical Laboratories Hours Of Laboratory Operation, Test Availability And Routine Run Times

	Days Monday - Friday 0800 - 1600	Saturday*, Sunday and Holiday Days All Evenings 1600 - 2400	All Nights 2400 - 0800
Chemistry	Routine tests (sweat chloride must be scheduled)	Core tests (urea nitrogen, creatinine, Na, K, Cl, CO₂, albumin, alkaline phosphatase, ALT, amylase, AST, bilirubin [total and direct], calcium, chloride, cholesterol, CK, GGT, glucose, HCG for pregnancy, LD, Mg, phosphorus, protein [total], triglycerides, uric acid) plus tests listed below this table All evenings: Core tests	Emergencies only
Hematology	All routine and stat tests Many labor-intensive tests, e.g., Bleeding time, Bone marrow aspiration, Platelet aggregation, must be scheduled - see the specific entry in the test table section of this manual	Stat gram stains Stat D-Dimers for VTE Stat TT Stat heparin level if approved by resident Stat Factor 8 or 9 if approved by resident Inhibitor Screen if approved by resident Bone marrow if OR or approved by resident Bleeding time if approved by resident Peroxidase stain if approved by resident Fluid cell count & diff CBC and Differential Fibrinogen Joint fluid crystals Platelet count Pregnancy test, urine PT, PTT RBC morphology Sedimentation rate Urinalysis APT test	STAT gram stains of normally sterile body sites D-Dimers for VTE from ED Stat TT Fluid cell count & diff CBC and Differential Fibrinogen Joint fluid crystals Platelet count Pregnancy test, urine PT, PTT RBC morphology Sedimentation rate Urinalysis APT test
Immunology	Routine tests - schedule varies TdT, Leukemia/Lymphoma Markers and Neutrophil Function tests - by arrangement	Saturday days only: Lymphocyte Phenotyping and CD34 stem cells TdT and Leukemia/Lymphoma Markers - by arrangement	Closed For emergency testing (Leukemia/Lymphoma) contact the on call Lab Medicine resident or Dr. Bill Karlon (415) 443-1216.
Blood Bank	Routine tests	Routine tests	Routine tests
Microbiology	Routine tests	Saturday days: Routine bacteriology Sunday/Holiday days, all evenings: Culture set-up, STAT smears, blood cultures, antigen tests	Stat gram stain available from Moffitt hematology on normallly sterile site and intra-operative samples.
Virology	Viral and chlamydia diagnostic tests	Viral diagnostic tests Staffed on day shift only	CLOSED
In-Situ Molecular Diag.	ERB-B2 FISH, Melanoma CGH	CLOSED	CLOSED
Cytogenetics	Non-neoplastic cytogenetic analysis including high resolution chromosome analysis, FISH	Except evenings: Set up samples for cytogenetic analysis.	CLOSED

* In addition to the "Core" tests, Chemistry runs the following assays routinely on Saturday and Sunday days:

B-Nat. Peptide	Digoxin	Osmolality	S/A Ratio & PG	Tobramycin
Carbamazepine	Gentamicin	Phenobarbital	Sirolimus	Troponin I
CK-MB	Lithium	Phenytoin	Tacrolimus	Valproic Acid
Cyclosporine	Methotrexate	Procainamide	Theophylline	Vancomycin

UCSF/Mount Zion Clinical Laboratory Hours Of Laboratory Operation, Test Availability And Routine Run Times

	24 x 7	By Appointment only
Hematology	Routine & Stat CBC, Differential, smear review, PT/aPTT, Fibrinogen, Urinalysis	Semen analysis (M-F, 0700-0900) Bleeding Time (M-F, 0800-1500)
Chemistry	Na, K, Cl, CO2, Glu, Ca, Creat, PO4, T. Bili, ALT, ALKP, Amy, AST, CK, Mg	IOPTH (M-F, 0730-1900, Scheduled surgical patient only)
Blood Bank	ABO, Rh typing, crossmatch	N/A

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