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HelpBCH Order Code VANCT Vancomycin Level, Trough, Serum
Additional Codes
| Carent Order Code |
|---|
| BCH322 |
Reporting Title
Vancomycin Trough
Useful For
Monitoring levels of vancomycin to ensure appropriate therapy. Aminoglycoside monitoring requires both peak and trough levels.
Performing Laboratory
Boulder Community Health
Specimen Requirements
Container/Tube: Plain, red-top tube(s)
Specimen Volume: 1 mL of serum
Collection Instructions: Serum for a trough
level should be drawn immediately prior to next dose. Initial
trough level of aminoglycoside will be drawn before the fourth
dose.
Note: 1. Random levels are drawn on dialysis
patients.
2. Dosage information, and which other antimicrobials are given
concurrently, and date and time of draw are required on request
form for processing.
3. Protect sample from light
Specimen Transport Temperature
Room Temperature up to 2 hours
Refrigerated up to 3 days
Frozen up to 14 days
Methodology
Enzyme Immunoassay.
Reference Values
Therapeutic concentration: 5-20 mcg/mL
Toxic concentration (automatic call-back): >30 mcg/mL
NOTE: To convert mcg/mL vancomycin to umol/L vancomycin, multiply the result by 0.67
To convert mcg/mL vancomycin to mg/L vancomycin, multiple the result by 1.0
Day(s) Test Set Up
Daily
Test Classification and CPT Coding
80202
LOINC Code Information
4092-3