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Glucose, Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)

Additional Codes

Epic# -

LAB185

 

Cerner name(s):

  • Glucose, CSF
  • CSF Glucose

Performing Lab(s)

Memorial-Belleville only

Specimen Requirement (s)

Specimen Type: CSF

Container/Tube:   sterile container

Specimen Volume:    full tube

Specimen Minimum Volume: 1 mL

 

Collection Instructions: Must indicate specimen type.

Day(s)/Shift(s) Test Set Up and Turnaround Time

Sunday through Saturday

Hours: 24 hours

 

Turnaround Time:

STAT: No

Routine: less than 1 hours from receipt.

Transport and Stability

Transport temperature: Ambient to lab

CPT/LOINC Codes

82945

Interpretive Data

Reference Interval Information:

 

CSF Glucose should be 60-66% of the most current plasma glucose concentration (milligrams/deciliter)

 

  • CLIN. CHEM. 41/3, 343-360 (1995), Clinical Utility of Biochemical Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid, Mark A. Watson and Mitchell G. Scott.

 

Current interpretive data was last revised on 8/13/2019.