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BD Vacutainer
™
Plus Plastic Citrate Tubes…
Clinically equivalent performance to
the BD Vacutainer
™
“Gold Standard”
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over 100 years of experience and a mission
to help all people live healthy lives.
BD Vacutainer Systems, Preanalytical Solutions is
committed to identifying and helping prevent sources
of preanalytical error through a combined product and
service offering. This helps our customers provide the
highest quality test results for patient diagnosis and
management.
For information contact your
BD Vacutainer Systems, Preanalytical Solutions Sales Consultant,
Customer Service at 1.888.237.2762 or
Technical Service at 1.800.631.0174
1.8mL Clinical Study
4.5mL Glass
1.8mL Plastic
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Hemoliance
®
Thrombosil I
Dade
®
Actin FSL
APTT [s] APTT [s]
N = 59 N = 59
2.7mL Clinical Study
4.5mL Glass
2.7mL Plastic
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
APTT [s] APTT [s]
Hemoliance
®
Thrombosil I
Dade
®
Actin FSL
N = 82 N = 82
APTT results in patients treated with unfractionated heparin
The 1.8mL and 2.7mL 0.109M BD Vacutainer
™
Plus Plastic Citrate Tubes yielded
clinically equivalent mean APTT clotting times when compared to the “Gold Standard”
BD Vacutainer
™
0.105M Glass Sodium Citrate Tube for patients treated with
unfractionated heparin, using two APTT reagents.
Number of patients are indicated for each tube/reagent combination. These data
represent a subset of the total patient population of over 1000 tested during the
product development process.
PT results and INR results in patients treated with Warfarin
The 1.8mL and 2.7mL 0.109M BD Vacutainer
™
Plus Plastic Citrate Tubes yield
clinically equivalent mean PT clotting times and INR values when compared to
the “Gold Standard” BD Vacutainer
™
0.105M Glass Sodium Citrate Tube for
Warfarin donors with two tested PT reagents (Hemoliance
®
Brain Thromboplastin
and Dade
®
Innovin
®
).
PT results and APTT results in normal patients
The same tubes also yielded clinically equivalent mean PT and APTT clotting times when
compared to the “Gold Standard” BD Vacutainer
™
0.105M Glass Sodium Citrate Tube
in normal patients with both PT reagents as well as APTT reagents.
Reference: VS5936 Evaluation of 0.109M 2.7mL and 1.8mL BD Vacutainer
™
Plus Plastic Sodium
Citrate Tubes using the Electra 1400C
™
Analyzer.
Clinical Documentation
*
ASSAYS
• Anti-Heparin Xa
• APTT
• Fibrinogen
• Platelet Counts
• PT
INSTRUMENTATION
• Coulter
®
STKS
™
• Dade Behring BCS
™
• Diagnostica Stago STA
®
• IL Electra 1400C
™
• IL Futura
™
• Sysmex
®
1500C
• Sysmex
®
K1000
REAGENTS
• Dade
®
Actin
®
(FS, FSL)
• Dade
®
Innovin
®
• Dade
®
Thromboplastin C Plus
• Hemoliance
®
Brain Thromboplastin
• Hemoliance Thrombosil
™
I
• IL Test
™
APTT-SP
• IL Test
™
PT-Fibrinogen HS Plus
• Stachrom
®
Heparin Xa reagent
• STA
®
Fibrinogen
* As of March 2002
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