Common Laboratory Tests, Interpretation, Tips For Our Clients

Please join me this Wednesday, June 1st for our next webinar.  We've packed it full of great information for your veterinary team.  If you want me to send you an electronic copy of the information I'm showing below, just visit www.halowconsulting.com and shoot me an email.  I'll be HAPPY to send you the stuff!

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This is an excellent supplement to those training manuals I keep bugging you to build  :)

Common Laboratory Test Rules

Urinalysis:  Owner should collect a ‘mid stream’ catch and refrigerate the sample immediately afterwards or transport it to the practice ASAP.  Test should be run within 20 hours of capturing sample.

T4:  Can be run at any time except when the patient is on soloxine.

Free T4:  Can be run at any time with or without medication

Post Pill T4:  4-6 hours after administering medication

Phenobarb Level:  If patient has been on meds greater than 3 weeks, the blood pull can happen at any time.

Potassium Bromide Level:  If the patient has been on the meds for 3 months or more, the blood pull can happen at any time.

Digoxin Levels:  Patient must be on meds for at least 6 days, then pull the sample 6 hours after medicating.

Maldigestion Level:  Have patients fast 12 hours prior to test.

ACTH Stim:  Fast patients for 12 hours prior to test.

Fructosamine:  No requirements

Blood Glucose:  6-8 hours post insulin injection