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C3, C4 Compliment
Test Name C3, C4 Compliment
Specimen Type / Requirements Container Type = 1 Gold Top (SST) Minimum Volume = 2 ml serum Tube must fill to at least ½ or greater of its vacuum capacity
Specimen Handling Collection Instructions: Collect sample in gold top (SST) tube. Write your initials, date and time of collection on the collection label. Special Instructions: Specimen must be labelled properly. Sperate as soon as possible and send refrigrated Rejection Criteria: Grossly hemolyzed, lipemic, Unlabeled or Not Sufficient Quantity samples will be rejected. Avoid repeat freeze/Thaw cycles. Stability: Stable refrigerated at 2-8°C for 14 days and frozen at or below -20°C for more than 14 days. Transportation: Send sample to core lab as soon as possible.
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Turnaround Time (TAT) 24 Hrs	Test Utilization
Reference Value C3: Newborn to age 5 days: 0.39-1.56 g/L Day6 to Adult: 0.90-1.80 g/L C4: Newborn to age 5 days: 0.05-0.33 g/L Day 6 to Adult: 0.10-0.40 g/L
Test Code C3X, C4X	Methodology Immunoturbidimetric
Testing Location Referred Out – ON, Canada (ROSJ03)	Other Information Last Updated: June 06, 2019

C3, C4 Compliment

C3, C4 Compliment

Container Type = 1 Gold Top (SST)

Minimum Volume = 2 ml serum

Tube must fill to at least ½ or greater of its vacuum capacity

Collection Instructions: Collect sample in gold top (SST) tube. Write your initials, date and time of collection on the collection label.

Special Instructions: Specimen must be labelled properly. Sperate as soon as possible and send refrigrated

Rejection Criteria: Grossly hemolyzed, lipemic, Unlabeled or Not Sufficient Quantity samples will be rejected. Avoid repeat freeze/Thaw cycles.

Stability: Stable refrigerated at 2-8°C for 14 days and frozen at or below -20°C for more than 14 days.

Transportation: Send sample to core lab as soon as possible.

24 Hrs

C3:

Newborn to age 5 days: 0.39-1.56 g/L

Day6 to Adult: 0.90-1.80 g/L

C4:

Newborn to age 5 days: 0.05-0.33 g/L

Day 6 to Adult: 0.10-0.40 g/L

C3X, C4X

Immunoturbidimetric

Referred Out – ON, Canada (ROSJ03)

Last Updated: June 06, 2019