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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 38, 1474-1478, Copyright © 1992 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Comparison of plastic vs. glass evacuated serum-separator (SST) blood- drawing tubes for common clinical chemistry determinations

BM Hill, RH Laessig, DD Koch and DJ Hassemer
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

We evaluated a plastic evacuated blood-drawing tube containing an integral serum-separating barrier gel, by direct comparison with a glass counterpart. The plastic tube demonstrated no differences when compared for common clinical chemistry analytes with multiple types of instruments and systems. A total of 260 such different combinations were studied with emphasis on tests sensitive to drawing and handling indexes such as lactate dehydrogenase and potassium. A total of six separate blood drawings were tested with no significant differences noted in these tests. The total study included subjective evaluations of the plastic tube's use as a blood-drawing device and objective studies based on quantitative test results from normal and hospitalized patients and use of the primary sampling tubes (both plastic and glass) for 48-h storage.


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