Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Sodium Citrate Tubes Versus CTAD

In today's laboratory, we strive to take as little blood from a patient as possible and also trying to decrease our costs. In current Sodium Citrate tubes the stability time is only 1 hour from collection to running, unless you remove the plasma, which will allow stability for 2 hours. The CTAD tube would give a 4 hour stability time on the Anti-factor Xa test. But could it be used for our other coagulation testing, such as Protimes, APTT, Fibrinogen and D Dimer?

Read more:
The CTAD Tube Dilemma

Source: Advance

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