Clots in EDTA 'lavender top' blood samples | 合法醫療器材資訊網

2019年2月27日—AcommoncauseofclottedEDTAsamplesisimpropermixingofsampletubesaftercollection.Thisisoftenanavoidableevent,overcomeby ...

27 February 2019

Danny Gaskin (@danieltgaskin) and Ola Yahaya (@molayahaya) discuss the formation of clots in EDTA ‘lavender top blood samples and how to avoid them

In the laboratory, we often receive phone calls from our clinical colleagues with questions about decisions we have made that might affect their patient’s care. For example, enquiries about why we have rejected a sample or why we were unable to provide a particular result due to a pre-analytical or technical error.

In this series of short articles, we want to try and address some of the most common questions we get asked. Our aim is to educate the wider workforce in a way that is simple to understand, about the decisions we make in the laboratory, with the hope that with a greater understanding the number of avoidable errors will be reduced.

In this article, we explore why clots might form in EDTA ...