Specimen collection
Neoteryx Mitra (VAMS)
Used across 2 service lines — endocrine, toxicology — for 71 analytes.
- Device
- Neoteryx Mitra
- Specimen
- Volumetric absorptive microsample, whole blood
- Volume
- 30 µL per tip
- Collection
- Kit contains two Mitra devices. The second tip supports either a repeat toxicology run or a hormone panel from the same collection event.
- Transport
- FedEx in a clinical pack, or courier pickup where available
- Menu
- Full toxicology menu, plus six hormones — cortisol, cortisone, progesterone, testosterone, androstenedione and pregnenolone.
Stability
- hormones established to 10 days
- toxicology analytes established to 28 days
These are the durations the stability studies were carried to, not the points at which the analytes fail. The hormone study was stopped at 10 days; the toxicology study was extended to 28 days deliberately, so that a physician requesting a retest on the original specimen can have one.