Marble Top Blood Tube

Common blood collection tubes their additives and laboratory uses by editorial team on january 2 2020 in biochemistry hematology immunology the evacuated tube system for blood collection in use for various laboratory tests consists of tubes of various sizes with color coded tops indicating tube contents.

Marble top blood tube.

Gel separates serum from cells. Blue top tube also light blue top tube. Marble top tubes are also referred to as tiger tops in some clinics. Plastic tube 13 x 100 16 x 100.

Phlebotomy tubes with green top contain sodium herapin lithium herapin and ammonium herapin all of which are coated in the inside of the tube. Sterile sst brand tube with inert clot activator determinations that require serum in chemistry or infectious disease testing. These are easily identified by the yellow diagonal stripes on the label. Trademarked versions include covidien corvac tubes.

Sps tubes have a paler colour sometimes leading confusion. The blood is then centrifuged allowing easy removal of serum for testing. The same tubes are used for clinical chemistry and stat chemistry tests. 2012 farlex inc.

Be sure to use only tubes with a 3 2 sodium citrate concentration. Hemogardtm gold top conventional red gray marble. 5 0 ml 8 5 ml. The herapin anticoagulant activates antithrombins that block the coagulation cascade and produce a plasma sample or whole blood.

Send whole blood in a gray top tube. These are known as yellow tops not gold.