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Citrate
BD Vacutainer
®
Citrate Tubes with 3.2% buffered sodium citrate solution are
used for routine coagulation studies.
BD Vacutainer
®
Citrate Plus Tubes now have a minimum fill indicator molded on
the tube. This indicator represents the minimum volume of blood required for
appropriate analysis. The nominal fill indicator on our other BD Vacutainer
®
Plus
Tubes remains unchanged.
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Reference #
Tube Size Draw Volume
Type Colour Label type
(mm) (mL)
366392 G 10.25x47 1.8 P
366393 G 10.25x64 2.7 P
363080 ✓ 13x75 1.8 P
363083 ✓ 13x75 2.7 P
366415 ✓ G 13x75 4.5 P
367599* G 13x75 4.5 P
369714 ✓ G 13x75 4.5 P
*CTAD
▲ BD CLINICAL ADVANTAGE:
Sodium citrate concentrations can have significant effects on APTT and PT assays
especially with patients receiving IV heparin therapy and when responsive
reagents are used. For this reason it is very important that laboratories determine
their normal range of APTT and PT based on one citrate concentration and
consistently use this concentration for all patient samples. BD offers only the
3.2% citrate concentration, as recommended by CLSI.
1
Use the BD Vacutainer
®
CTAD tube to increase the accuracy of hemostasis
testing. The CTAD solution is a mixture of sodium citrate, theophylline, adenosine
and dipyridamole, designed to minimize in vitro platelet activation, thereby
reducing the risk of heparin patient mismanagement.
1 NCCLS, Collection, Transport and Processing of Blood Specimens for Coagulation Testing and General Performance
of Coagulation Assays - Third Edition; Approved Guideline. NCCLS documentation H21-A3, Vol. 18, No. 20, Dec.
1998.
Heparin
BD Vacutainer
®
Heparin Tubes are spray-coated with either lithium heparin or
sodium heparin and are used for plasma determinations in chemistry.
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Reference #
Tube Size Draw Volume
Type Colour Label type
(mm) (mL)
Lithium Heparin
366664 13x75 2.0 P
367884 ✓ 13x75 4.0 P
367886 13x100 6.0 P
367880 16x100 10.0 P
Sodium Heparin
367671 G 13x75 2.0 P
367871 ✓ 13x75 4.0 P
367878 13x100 6.0 P
366480 G 16x100 10.0 P
367874 16x100 10.0 P