Tony R Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Does anyone know if the AABB or CAP allow blood banks to use plastic clot tubes to draw blood bank specimens. Our lab would like to do away with glass tubes as a safety issue.ThanksTony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trek Tech Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Absolutely! We had to do a cross study with both glass and plastic tubes. We use EDTA plasma though. No waiting for tubes to clot (especially STATs and dialysis patients). It is the way to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbostock Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 We made to switch to plastic a couple years ago. We've had no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likewine99 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 We made the switch to plastic tubes several years ago. We use pink top K3EDTA to differentiate from the Hematology specs.Plasma works great, spins down faster and no fibrin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmpollock Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Here are some references, some of which are FDA 510k documents:http://www.fda.gov/CbER/510ksumm/k050036S.pdfhttp://www.fda.gov/cber/510ksumm/k980011S.pdfhttp://www.gbo.com/documents/Evaluation_K2_K3_Immunohematology_IDMTS_GelTest.pdfhttp://www.bd.com/vacutainer/faqs/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary** Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 You do get "fibrin debris" if the specimen sits in the refrigerator for awhile. When we use prevously refrigerated specimens, we recentrifuge the plasma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmelloh Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 We switched from red top glass to plastic K2EDTA pink tops with no problems. The great part is not having to wait on the sample to clot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L106 Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 We made the switch to plastic tubes several years ago. We use pink top K3EDTA to differentiate from the Hematology specs.Plasma works great, spins down faster and no fibrin.We did the same as Likewine99 several years ago. However, check with the vendor (and the product inserts) to be sure that their plastic pink-top vacutainer tubes are approved for Blood Bank testing; at the time that we switched, only one company's plastic tubes were approved for BB testing....other companies' plastic tubes were not approved for BB.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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