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.

6 ** 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. Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 USA BD, BD Logo and all other trademarks are property of Becton, Dickinson and Company. 2006 BD Printed in USA 07/06 VS5229-8.