cryan

Thanks for the explanation. Your arguments really sound reasonable. I think I would also go for the Raycell. If I finally choose this one I will definitely need a chiller but I do not buy one yet so I think I will bypass the time by using chiller rentals. I hope that this will be the right decision for me.

i have had an experience with Streck calibrators and it is surely a good one, very convenient and easy to understand plus it is very user friendly and it has a manual that can really help you a lot especially when you want to troubleshoot. they are also very durable and accurate of course so i wuld say that you do try to check out their calibrators

i can agree to the question, usually you can suspect a hemolysis depending on the color of the sample becasue it does have a distinct darker color when it underwent hemolysis. it really takes a lot of experience to be able to distinguish samples by mere observation but of course it need proper testing to confirm such presumptions.

he device that i am familiar of has a built in mixer so i am not quite ure of what you are using here. i used an automated mixer and this has always worked for our lab although i think that this kind of details should be asked to the manufacturer of your machine just to be sure you will be following the prescribed procedure

i have had the same problem once and it was really getting me so confused i though i was doing something wrong and it really bothered me for a while but i figured it was a practice that the nurse was doing that made the results weird too.you could probably have some retraining or orientation regarding phlebotomy once in a while to be sure that they still practice the proper techniques.