These tubes are used to separate the blood cells from the serum.
Red marble blood tube.
Sps tubes have a paler colour sometimes leading confusion.
Polymer gel and powdered glass clot activator.
Plastic tube 13 x 100 16 x 100.
Tubes with orange or gray yellow tops are used to test serum that is needed.
There are two kinds of sst tubes.
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They contain a special gel that separates blood cells from serum as well as particles to cause blood to clot.
Excessive bleeding longer than five minutes should be brought to the attention of the physician.
Gold or red gray tube also known as a tiger tube that contains a clot activator.
Also a clot tube eg red top tube or gel barrier that does not clot should be brought to the attention of the physician.
Pink top tube edta this tube contains edta as an anticoagulant.
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The tube must be inverted five times following blood collection.
Tubes with a red stopper are used to collect serum to test for routine donor screening or infectious disease.
Trademarked versions include covidien corvac tubes.
It contains a clot activator.
Any of a number of blood collection tubes which contain a special gel that separates cells from serum and material that causes clotting.
Marble top tubes are also referred to as tiger tops in some clinics.
These are known as yellow tops not gold.
The red bottle is less common it is used for biochemistry tests requiring serum which might be adversely affected by the separator gel used in the yellow bottle.
The list below lists the most commonly used blood collection tubes their additives and uses in laboratory.
These tubes are preferred for blood bank tests.
Gold or red gray marble stopper two types sst serum separator tube.
The blood is then centrifuged allowing easy removal of serum for testing.
One tube has a gold stopper and the other has a red gray marble stopper.
Red top tube glass this tube is a plain glass vacutainer containing no clot activators anticoagulants preservatives or separator material.
Hemogardtm gold top conventional red gray marble.
These tubes have a clot activator on the glass and a polymer gel as the separator.
It is used to separate blood from the serum.
