The Prenatal Biochemistry Laboratory at Children's &Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, formerly known as the Prenatal Screening Laboratory, will perform the serum biochemistry testing and the reporting of SIPS, IPS and Quad screen results.

Requisition Forms

Print out a requisition form and fill it out manually.

or

Download an interactive requisition form to fill out on the computer and then print out.

Give the completed requisition(s) to your patient to acompany their blood sample to the laboratory.  Each blood sample must be accompanied by a completed requisition.

Reports

The prenatal screen report format has changed, as new software is being used for interpretation.

• The new report shows screen negative and screen positive results for Down syndrome and open neural tube defects.
• The report does not display results for trisomy 18 unless the result is screen positive.
• Reports no longer contain graphs.

Screen positive results will continue to be called out to the ordering health care provider by genetic counsellors in the Prenatal Biochemistry Laboratory as soon as results are known.

Reports will be faxed to the ordering health care provider and to the “copy to” providers listed on the requisition. Hard copies will not be mailed.