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2. Vacutainer - Wikipedia

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   A range of Vacutainer tubes containing blood. 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 ...

3. Template:Table of blood sampling tubes - Wikipedia

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   Tube cap color or type in order of draw Additive Usage and comments Blood culture bottle: Sodium polyanethol sulfonate (anticoagulant) and growth media for microorganisms: Usually drawn first for minimal risk of contamination. [1] Two bottles are typically collected in one blood draw; one for aerobic organisms and one for anaerobic organisms ...

4. Serum-separating tube - Wikipedia

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   The tubes have micronized silica particles which help clot the blood before centrifugation, and a gel at the bottom which separates whole blood cells from serum. [1] Silica nanoparticles induce coagulation through contact activation of coagulation factor XII (Hageman factor). [ 2 ]

5. US FDA flags shortage of Becton Dickinson's blood test tubes

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   Last month, Becton issued a letter warning of potential delays in its BACTEC blood culture media supply over the coming months due to reduced availability of plastic bottles from a supplier.

6. Instruments used in medical laboratories - Wikipedia

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   Test tube: Folin-Wu tube: Glass slide mycole and cover slips: in microscopy, serology, etc. as the solid backing on which test samples are Petri dish: used for preparation of culture media and the culture of organisms they are in Glass beaker: reagent storage Glass flask: gastric acid, or other fluid titration: Pasteur pipette

7. Venipuncture - Wikipedia

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   The test tubes in which blood is collected may contain one or more of several additives. In general, tests requiring whole blood call for blood samples collected in test tubes containing some form of the anticoagulant EDTA. EDTA chelates calcium to prevent clotting. EDTA is preferred for hematology tests because it does minimum damage to cell ...