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Test Code 5334579555 Occult Blood Stool iFOB

Performing Laboratory

Torrance Memorial Laboratories

Specimen Requirements

Container: 

Sterile container  (Inpatients) (container "s") - click link under "Resources" to see picture

Fecal Occult Blood Collection Kit (container "m") or Occult Blood Automated Collection Kit  (container "n") - click link under "Resources" to see picture
Specimen Types:  Stool

Specimen Volume: Sample must fill the grooved portion of the sample probe
Collection Instructions:

1. Collect a random stool specimen.

2. See Fecal Occult Blood Collection Kit package insert for instructions.

3.  Specimens must be collected in or transferred to sample vial within 4 hours of defecation.

Specimen Transport Temperature

In Sterile container (container "s):  Must be delivered to lab within 24 hours.

 

Existing collection kit (container "m") stability (once stool in collection tube):

Room Temperature:  6 days;

Refrigerated:  30 days

 

New collection kit (container "n") stability (once stool in collection tube):

Room Temperature:  14 days

Refrigerated:  30 days

Methodology

Immunological

Reference Range

Negative

Day(s) Test Set Up/TAT

Performed:

Daily

 

TAT:  

< 24 hrs

Aliases

FOBT
iFOBTest
Hemosure iFOBTest
Fecal occult blood
Stool occult blood

FITest Fecal Globin by Immunochemistry

CPT Code

82274