Impact of Use of Smaller Volume, Smaller Vacuum Blood Collection Tubes on Hemolysis in Emergency Department Blood Samples.

Conclusions: This work demonstrates that significant improvements in ED hemolysis can be achieved by utilization of small-volume/vacuum sample collection tubes. PMID: 28967950 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28967950?dopt=Abstract

Source: American Journal of Clinical Pathology - October 1, 2017 Category: Pathology Authors: Phelan MP, Reineks EZ, Berriochoa JP, Schold JD, Hustey FM, Chamberlin J, Kovach A Tags: Am J Clin Pathol Source Type: research

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