Trabajos De Laboratorio

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BD Vacutainer Venous Blood Collection

Tube Guide

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BD VacutainerTubes with
Tubes with
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BD Hemogard Closure Conventional Stopper

Additive

Inversions
at Blood
Collection*

Your Lab’s
Draw Volume/Remarks

Laboratory Use
For serum determinations inchemistry. May be used for
routine blood donor screening and diagnostic testing of
serum for infectious disease.** Tube inversions ensure
mixing of clot activator with blood. Blood clotting time:
30minutes.
BD Vacutainer PST Tube for plasma determinations
in chemistry. Tube inversions prevent clotting.

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5

For serum determinations in chemistry. May be used for
routine blood donorscreening and diagnostic testing of
serum for infectious disease.** Tube inversions ensure
mixing of clot activator with blood. Blood clotting time:
60 minutes.

8

For stat serum determinations inchemistry. Tube
inversions ensure complete clotting, which usually
occurs in less than 5 minutes.

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8
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5
8

For trace-element, toxicology, and nutritionalchemistry determinations. Specialstopper
formulation provides low levels of trace
elements (see package insert).

• Sodium heparin
• Lithium heparin

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8

For plasma determinations in chemistry.
Tube inversions preventclotting.

• Potassium oxalate/
sodium fluoride
• Sodium fluoride/Na2 EDTA
• Sodium fluoride (serum tube)

8

• K2EDTA (plastic)

8
8

For glucose determinations. Oxalate and EDTAanticoagulants will give plasma samples.
Sodium fluoride is the antiglycolytic agent.
Tube inversions ensure proper mixing of
additive and blood.
For lead determinations. This tube is certified
tocontain less than .01 µg/mL(ppm) lead. Tube
inversions prevent clotting.

• Sodium
polyanethol sulfonate (SPS)
• Acid citrate dextrose
additives (ACD):
Solution A 22.0 g/L trisodium citrate,
8.0...