Aluminium

Sample type: Whole Blood

Test name: Aluminium

Special precautions & notes: It is essential to request a Blue top trace elements tube from Pathology consumables (x48406).

Reference range: In blood less than 0.4 μmol/L, (less than 2.0 in dialysis patients). In water, post reverse osmosis, less than 0.1 µmol/L

Container: Blue top Trace elements tube

Ideal volume (mL): 5 mL

Referred outside NBT for analysis? No

Discipline: Clinical Biochemistry

Section: Toxicology

Turnaround time: 14 days

www.nbt.nhs.uk/toxicology