What Is Wrong with This Picture?
Author(s) -
David E. Bruns,
Maggie Edwards,
William Patterson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2011.169847
Subject(s) - vacutainer , thrombin , medicine , centrifugation , thrombin generation , chemistry , chromatography , surgery , platelet
As part of an institutional review board–approved study of blood collection tubes, paired blood samples from renal dialysis patients were collected into plastic tubes (BD Vacutainer) with and without thrombin-based clot activator. All tubes contained barrier gel. Fig. 1 shows thrombin-containing tubes with blood from 2 study patients.Fig. 1. Blood samples from 2 patients after centrifugation at 1700 g . Both tubes contained a thrombin-based clot activator.1. What is unusual in the image?2. What is a …
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