Why Healthcare Providers Trust NMS Labs for Umbilical Cord Testing

As a neonatal nurse, you take care of newborns in the NICU. Every shift, you provide essential care for newborns in distress. You collect samples to be tested for newborn toxicology. You were trained on correct collection methods and understand how to prepare samples. If necessary, you work with child welfare services to ensure collections are made in accordance with court mandates and help to ensure chain-of-custody is not broken.

As a neonatologist, comprehensive testing, and early identification to the substances your patient has been exposed to are critical to delivering better patient outcomes. Having a reliable and accurate test which streamlines processes is important too and may be the reason why you have considered umbilical cord testing for your department.

As obstetricians and nurses on the delivery team, you deliver babies in an operating room or birthing suite. Typically, you are the first to notice if a child is in distress or if a mother might be intoxicated during delivery. You coordinate with the neonatology team and advise child welfare services about the behavior or conditions you observed during birth.

NMS Labs is the only clinical laboratory rooted in over 50 years of forensic toxicology principles ensuring that our customers can have confidence in our testing options.

NMS Labs is a recognized leader in enforcing strict chain-of-custody protocols. We understand the sensitive nature of these important tests and it is our mission to provide accurate results to support not only your organization, hospital, and community but also child welfare issues, possible court action, and/or civil or criminal litigation.

NMS Labs provides three screening methods depending on client needs (Comprehensive, Expanded and Basic Panels).

Our Comprehensive UCT Drug Screening offers the largest panel on the market with best-in-class sensitivity and providing you with accurate results

for 57 drugs and metabolites spanning 13 drug classes. We also offer additional screening for ethyl glucuronide, a marker of alcohol exposure, that can be added on to any test panel.

With NMS Labs as your trusted partner, you also get exclusive access to our toxicologists.

Our board-certified toxicologists are available to discuss results, answer any questions you may have on testing, and, in certain scenarios are able to extend their availability as an expert witness at trial for child welfare cases.

Umbilical Cord Offers

Comprehensive Screen

  • NMS Labs offers a Comprehensive Umbilical Cord Drug Panel
  • Covers all 16 major classes of drugs
  • 57 drugs and metabolites

Fast and Efficient

  • Includes NMS Labs UCT collection kits
  • Simple and quick sample preparation
  • Six easy steps
  • How-to video
  • Results quick: 24 hours for Negative; 72 hours for Positive

Secure

  • Trusted NMS Labs brand
  • 50-year performance record
  • Chain of Custody rooted in forensic principles
  • Sample integrity throughout process
  • Clinical laboratory of choice
  • Expert toxicology staff

Unsurpassed Quality

  • Targeted methodology
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Sensitive screenings
  • Confirmed specificity
  • Superior to immunoassay
Drug Classes
57
Comprehensive
33
Expanded
15
Basic
Amphetamines
Analgesics
Barbiturates
Bath Salts
Benzodiazepines
Buprenorphine
Cannabinoids
Cocaine
Depressants
Fentanyl
Gabapentin
Methadone
Mitragynine
Muscle Relaxants
Opiates
Oxycodone
PCP
Xylazine

Amphetamines
Analgesics
Barbiturates
Bath Salts
Benzodiazepines
Buprenorphine
Cannabinoids
Cocaine
Depressants
Fentanyl
Gabapentin
Methadone
Mitragynine
Muscle Relaxants
Opiates
Oxycodone
PCP
Xylazine

Amphetamines
Analgesics
Barbiturates
Bath Salts
Benzodiazepines
Buprenorphine
Cannabinoids
Cocaine
Depressants
Fentanyl
Gabapentin
Methadone
Mitragynine
Muscle Relaxants
Opiates
Oxycodone
PCP
Xylazine

Amphetamines
Analgesics
Barbiturates
Bath Salts
Benzodiazepines
Buprenorphine
Cannabinoids
Cocaine
Depressants
Fentanyl
Gabapentin
Methadone
Mitragynine
Muscle Relaxants
Opiates
Oxycodone
PCP
Xylazine
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Newborn Toxicology Testing

Comparison of Umbilical Cord, Meconium and Urine

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Advances in Newborn Toxicology Testing

Umbilical cord testing to detect maternal drug use

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Frequently Asked Questions

Umbilical Cord Tissue Testing

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Newborn Toxicology Testing Using Umbilical Cord

When You Need to Know™ Trust NMS Labs

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Newborn Toxicology: Umbilical Cord Collection

Readily available and easy to collect.

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Understanding Health Impacts on Families and Children

What is Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

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