Specimen

Serum

Collection Medium:

Minimum:

Adult mimimum:  1.0 mL serum from red top
Abslute Adult minimum: 0.5 mL serum from red top
Pediatric minimum: TWO microtubes or 0.2 mL serum (not whole blood)

Rejection Criteria:

Serum is only acceptable sample type.  Hemolyzed specimen is not 
acceptable.

Specimen
Instructions:

Allow to clot completely at room temperature.

Analytic Time:

Result available within 24 hours of receipt at reference laboratory.

Reference Range:

0-30 days:          6.0 - 32.0 U/L
1 month-6 years:    3.0 - 12.0 U/L
7-17 years:         3.3 -  9.7 U/L
18 years and older: 1.5 -  8.1 U/L

Comments:

Patients will be screened, looking for an elevated CK value within the
last 24 hrs.  If this CK value was normal, this test will be sent to a
commercial lab; if this CK value is elevated this test will be
canceled.

Methodology:

Enzymatic

CPT Code:

82085