Anticoagulant Drug Monitoring (Coumadin)
12 days
High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
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Anticoagulant drug. Typically monitored with INR.
Serum or Plasma
1 mL
Red-top tube, Lavender-top (EDTA) tube
No special preparation is required for this test. You may eat, drink, and take your medications as normal, unless instructed otherwise by your healthcare provider.
This test does not require any special collection or pre-analytical handling. Follow routine specimen collection protocols.
| Temperature | Period |
|---|---|
| Room temperature | 30 days |
| Refrigerated | 30 days |
| Frozen | 450 days |