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Test Code U_MG Magnesium Level Urine

EHR Test Codes

  Test Code Test Name
Atlas    
Cerner   Magnesium Level Urine

Specimen Requirements

Preparation of Patient: 

None.

 

Container Type: 

Sterile Specimen Cup

 

or

 

White Top 6mL No Additive Tube

 

Specimen Type:

Urine

 

Specimen Volume: 

6 mL Urine minimum .5 mL

 

Specimen Handling/Transport:

Aliquot urine into White Top 6ml No Additive Tube if availible via urine transfer straw.  Transport refrigerated 2-8°C.

 

Specimen Stability/Storage:

2 days ambient room temperature

5 days refrigerated 2-8°C

 

Specimen Rejection:

Samples in preservatives

Performing Laboratory

Munson Medical Center Laboratories

Chemistry Department

Priority, Frequency, & Turnaround

Priority:

Non-Emergent

 

Frequency:

24 hours 7 days a week

 

Turnaround:

0 - 1 days

Methodology

Xylidyl blue

Reporting

Reference Range:

None

 

Critical Decision: 

None

Clinical Significance

Urinary excretion of magnesium is diet dependent. Increased urinary magnesium may result from generalized renal disease or alcoholism, intensive diuretic therapy, and treatment with the antibiotic gentamicin result also in increased urinary magnesium losses.

CPT Code(s)

83735