Creatine Kinase Test Tube Color
Skeletal muscles are the muscles attached to your skeleton.
Creatine kinase test tube color. Elevated in some patients with myxedema hypothyroidism malignant hyperthermia syndrome and muscular dystrophy. The ck mb isoenzyme which has a molecular mass of approximately 87 kilodaltons accounts for 5 to 50 of total ck activity in myocardium. 612 813 6280 stp lab. Myocarditis mycardial infarction heart attack muscular dystrophy muscle trauma or excessive exercise.
Tests and tube color phlebotomy. Ck is a type of protein known as an enzyme. For guidance on specimen collection or availability of other tests please bleep the duty biochemist on 1417. 1 ck is increased in female carriers of this x linked disease and in.
Creatine kinase ck is an enzyme found primarily in muscle and brain tissue which exists as three dimeric isoenzymes. Serum gel tubes should be centrifuged within 2 hours of collection. Creatine kinase concentration reported in u l. Daily 24 hours turnaround time.
Color blocks below correspond to patient bedside visual reference used at sph following mistake proofing. Ck is a marker for duchenne muscular dystrophy with elevations of 20 to 200 times normal. Ck mm ck 3 ck mb ck 2 and ck bb ck 1 built from subunits designated m and b. Elevated results may be due to.
It is mostly found in your skeletal muscles and heart with lesser amounts in the brain. Creatine kinase ck chemistry sst tiger top. What is a creatine kinase ck test. Blood test color tube.
Test for acute myocardial infarct and for skeletal muscular damage. If a container is stated as â yellowâ red tubes can be used if the request includes assays that can only be performed on tests requiring blood collected into a red tube. Creatine kinase activity is useful in evaluating diseases of the heart skeletal muscle and brain. This test measures the amount of creatine kinase ck in the blood.
Laboratory specimen tube type collection chart draw in the order shown on the chart from left to right order label at the bedside timely delivery to the lab mix all tubes gently 5 10 times by inverting immediately after collection.