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2. Vacutainer - Wikipedia

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   A vacutainer blood collection tube is a sterile glass or plastic test tube with a colored rubber stopper creating a vacuum seal inside of the tube, facilitating the drawing of a predetermined volume of liquid. Vacutainer tubes may contain additives designed to stabilize and preserve the specimen prior to analytical testing.

3. Venipuncture - Wikipedia

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   These tubes are manufactured with a specific volume of gas removed from the sealed tube. When a needle from a hub or transfer device is inserted into the stopper, the tube's vacuum automatically pulls in the required volume of blood. [citation needed] The basic Evacuated Tube System (ETS) consists of a needle, a tube holder, and the evacuated ...

4. Serum-separating tube - Wikipedia

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   These tubes should be used with care when measuring drug or hormone levels because the drug or hormone may diffuse from the serum into the gel, causing a reduction in measured level. The gel in SST II tubes (which appears slightly less opaque) is supposed [weasel words] to have less effect on drug levels in serum. [citation needed]

5. BD (company) - Wikipedia

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   The company was founded in 1897 in New York City by Maxwell Becton and Fairleigh S. Dickinson.It later moved its headquarters to New Jersey. In 2004, BD agreed to pay out US$100 million to settle allegations from competitor Retractable Technologies that it had engaged in anti-competitive behavior to prevent the distribution of Retractable's syringes, which are designed to prevent needlestick ...

6. File:Video of venipuncture (blood draw or collection) using ...

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   File:Video of venipuncture (blood draw or collection) using the BD Vacutainer product..webm. Add languages. Page contents not supported in other languages.

7. Blood test - Wikipedia

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   A venipuncture performed using a vacutainer. A venipuncture is useful as it is a minimally invasive way to obtain cells and extracellular fluid from the body for analysis. Blood flows throughout the body, acting as a medium that provides oxygen and nutrients to tissues and carries waste products back to the excretory systems for disposal ...