The tube must be inverted five times following blood collection.
Red marble blood tube.
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.
Excessive bleeding longer than five minutes should be brought to the attention of the physician.
Any of a number of blood collection tubes which contain a special gel that separates cells from serum and material that causes clotting.
Polymer gel and powdered glass clot activator.
The list below lists the most commonly used blood collection tubes their additives and uses in laboratory.
It contains a clot activator.
These tubes are preferred for blood bank tests.
They contain a special gel that separates blood cells from serum as well as particles to cause blood to clot.
These are known as yellow tops not gold.
Marble top tubes are also referred to as tiger tops in some clinics.
5 0 ml 8 5 ml.
Today we have blood red and snowball facing each other on the same track in the two p.
Gold or red gray tube also known as a tiger tube that contains a clot activator.
After drawing blood observe proper venipuncture techniques to prevent continued bleeding and or hematoma.
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.
Tubes with orange or gray yellow tops are used to test serum that is needed.
These tubes are used to separate the blood cells from the serum.
Also a clot tube eg red top tube or gel barrier that does not clot should be brought to the attention of the physician.
Trademarked versions include covidien corvac tubes.
These tubes can be used for blood bank tests.
Gold or red gray marble stopper two types sst serum separator tube.
Pink top tube edta this tube contains edta as an anticoagulant.
Sps tubes have a paler colour sometimes leading confusion.
Plastic tube 13 x 100 16 x 100.
These tubes have a clot activator on the glass and a polymer gel as the separator.
Red top tube glass this tube is a plain glass vacutainer containing no clot activators anticoagulants preservatives or separator material.
It is used to separate blood from the serum.
There are two kinds of sst tubes.
