Beryllium, Blood

• CPT Code: 83018
• LOINC: 8159-6
• Specimen Type: Royal Blue EDTA
• Frequency: Setup: Daily; Analytic time 3 days
• Instructions: 2ml whole blood from Royal blue EDTA metal free tube. Refrigerate. Min 0.3mL may elevate reporting limit.
• Text: Beryllium is a highly toxic metal and if exposed to it, at or above the threshold values, it can lead to a chronic beryllium disease (CBD) (i.e. berylliosis) or an acute beryllium disease. Toxic exposure to beryllium is most often thru an inhalation pathway.
• Methodology: Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)