BD Vacutainer Venous Blood Collection Tube Guide

1 BD Vacutainer Venous Blood Collection Tube Guide . For a full line of BD Vacutainer Specimen Collection Products, visit . BD Vacutainer BD Vacutainer Inversions tubes with tubes with at Blood Your Lab's . BD Hemogard Closure Conventional Stopper Additive Collection * Laboratory Use Draw Volume/Remarks Clot activator and gel For serum determinations in chemistry. May be used for 5 routine Blood donor screening and diagnostic testing of Red/ for serum separation Gold serum for infectious disease.** Tube inversions ensure Black mixing of clot activator with Blood . Blood clotting time: 30 minutes.. Lithium heparin 8 BD Vacutainer PST Tube for plasma determinations Light Green/ and gel for plasma in chemistry. Tube inversions prevent clotting. Green Gray separation None (glass) 0 For serum determinations in chemistry. May be used for Clot activator (plastic) 5 routine Blood donor screening and diagnostic testing of Red serum for infectious disease.

2 ** Tube inversions ensure mixing of clot activator with Blood . Blood clotting time: 60 minutes. Thrombin 8 For stat serum determinations in chemistry. Tube Gray/ inversions ensure complete clotting, which usually Orange occurs in less than 5 minutes. Yellow Clot activator (plastic serum) 8 For trace-element, toxicology, and nutritional- K2 EDTA (plastic) 8 chemistry determinations. Special stopper Royal formulation provides low levels of trace Blue 0. elements (see package insert). 5. 8. Sodium heparin 8 For plasma determinations in chemistry. Lithium heparin 8 Tube inversions prevent clotting. Green Potassium oxalate/ 8 For glucose determinations. Oxalate and EDTA. sodium fluoride anticoagulants will give plasma samples. Gray Sodium fluoride is the antiglycolytic agent. Sodium fluoride/Na2 EDTA 8. Sodium fluoride (serum tube) Tube inversions ensure proper mixing of 8 additive and Blood .

3 K2 EDTA (plastic) 8 For lead determinations. This tube is certified 8 to contain less than .01 g/mL(ppm) lead. Tube Tan inversions prevent clotting. Sodium 8 SPS for Blood culture specimen collections in polyanethol sulfonate (SPS) microbiology. Tube inversions prevent clotting. Yellow Acid citrate dextrose additives (ACD): ACD for use in Blood bank studies, HLA. Solution A - 8 phenotyping, and DNA and paternity testing. g/L trisodium citrate, g/L citric acid, g/L dextrose Solution B - 8. g/L trisodium citrate, g/L citric acid, g/L dextrose Liquid K3 EDTA (glass) 8 K2 EDTA and K3 EDTA for whole Blood hematology Spray-coated K2 EDTA 8 determinations. K2 EDTA may be used for routine Lavender immunohematology testing and Blood donor (plastic). screening.** Tube inversions prevent clotting. K2 EDTA with gel 8 For use in molecular diagnostic test methods (such as but not limited to polymerase chain White reaction [PCR] and/or branched DNA [bDNA].)

4 Amplification techniques). Spray-coated K2 EDTA 8 For whole Blood hematology determinations. May be used for routine immunohematology testing and Blood Pink New donor screening.** Designed with special cross-match label for patient information required by the AABB. Tube inversions prevent clotting. Buffered sodium citrate 3-4 For coagulation determinations. CTAD for M ( ) glass selected platelet function assays and routine Light Clear M ( ) plastic coagulation determination. Tube inversions Blue Citrate, theophylline, 3-4 prevent clotting. adenosine, dipyridamole (CTAD). None (plastic) 0 For use as a discard tube or secondary specimen New Collection tube. Clear Red/. Gray Partial-draw tubes Small-volume Pediatric tubes (2 mL and 3 mL: 13 x 75 mm) (2 mL: x 47 mm, 3 mL: x 64 mm). None 0 For serum determinations in chemistry. May be used for routine Blood donor screening, immunohematology Red testing,** and diagnostic testing of serum for infectious disease.

5 ** Tube inversions ensure mixing of clot activator with Blood . Blood clotting time: 60 minutes. Sodium heparin 8 For plasma determinations in chemistry. Lithium heparin 8 Tube inversions prevent clotting. Green Spray-coated K2 EDTA 8 For whole Blood hematology determinations. (plastic) 8 May be used for routine immunohematology Lavender testing and Blood donor screening.**. Tube inversions prevent clotting. M sodium citrate 3-4 For coagulation determinations. ( ) Tube inversions prevent clotting. Light Blue * Invert gently, do not shake BD Diagnostics BD Global Technical Services: ** The performance characteristics of these tubes have not been established for infectious disease testing in general; therefore, users must Preanalytical Systems validate the use of these tubes for their specific assay-instrument/reagent system combinations and specimen storage conditions. ** The performance characteristics of these tubes have not been established for immunohematology testing in general; therefore, users must 1 Becton Drive BD Customer Service: validate the use of these tubes for their specific assay-instrument/reagent system combinations and specimen storage conditions.

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