Why does ionized calcium need to be on ice?

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Hey all,

I've been drawing a lot of icals the last few nights, and I just got to wondering why it needs to be stuck in ice right away. Anybody know?

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Specializes in CCRN, ALS, BLS, PALS.

it is to prevent anaerobic metabolism. If left room temp, the value would be lower than expected.

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Specializes in Neuroscience/Brain and Stroke.

Our hospital doenst require it on ice anymore, just STAT delivery to the lab.

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Specializes in Oncology.

I wonder if there's different ways to analyze it. Ours aren't stat or on ice. Also, what's normal for your's? Ours we want right around 1.20, but I had a student RN who works as an LPN at a different hospital recently say their values were way different.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

We don't put ours on ice either. I have never put them on ice.

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I wonder if there's different ways to analyze it. Ours aren't stat or on ice. Also, what's normal for your's? Ours we want right around 1.20, but I had a student RN who works as an LPN at a different hospital recently say their values were way different.

We're happy with 1.01

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