List and explain Fasting vs. STAT when referring for a blood test. What's the difference between the Evacuated tube system and vs. syringe method?

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  • List and explain Fasting vs. STAT when referring for a blood test.
  • What's the difference between the Evacuated tube system and vs. syringe method?
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Fasting vs STAT

Fasting:- If your health care provider that told you to do fast before the blood test, it means  you should not to be eat or the drink anything, except the water, for the several hours before the your test. When you eat and the drink normally in the your normal hours , the using of the foods and beverages are the absorbed into the your bloodstream. That could be affect the results of the certain types of your blood tests.

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STAT the laboratory tests and the services are those that are to be needed that immediately in the order to be manage of the medical  emergencies. The STAT test are the requests are given to the highest priority by the Clinical  in the Laboratory for the processing, the analysis and the reporting. If less urgent of the tests are also to be ordered STAT,  when a backlog that me be may develop  and the each specimen that will be the processed in the order of the receipt, thereby delaying the reports for the true of the emergencies.

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