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JCP Online First, published on March 31, 2014 as 10.1136/jclinpath-2013-202130 Original article

Comparison of Becton Dickinson Vacutainer rapid serum tube with the serum separator tube for routine chemistry and immunoassay tests Ronald Yan,1,2 Amy Lou,3,4 Gail Watts,1 Heather Tarr,1 Hilary Smith,1 Lois Kinney,1 Yu Chen1,4 1

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, Horizon Health Network, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 2 Dalhousie Medical Program in New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 3 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Capital Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 4 Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Correspondence to Dr Yu Chen, Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dr Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, Horizon Health Network, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5N5; [email protected] Received 10 December 2013 Revised 27 February 2014 Accepted 13 March 2014

ABSTRACT Aims To shorten the clotting time and resolve the delayed clotting or no clotting on specimens from patients on anticoagulant therapy, Becton Dickinson (BD) recently developed the Vacutainer rapid serum tube (RST). The aim of this study was to systematically compare the new RST tube with the widely used serum separator tube (SST) for routine chemistry and immunoassay tests on 3 common analyser platforms. Methods Blood from 45 people (24 women and 21 men, age 21–77 years) was collected using the SST and RST tubes in sequence. Sera from both tubes were separated and analysed simultaneously for 54, 50, and 10 chemistry and/or immunoassay tests on the Roche Modular, Abbott Architect, and Siemens Centaur analysers, respectively. Results The results from the RST tube were comparable with those from the SST tube on most analytes. Although the results for a few analytes showed statistically significant differences between the two tubes ( p

Comparison of Becton Dickinson Vacutainer rapid serum tube with the serum separator tube for routine chemistry and immunoassay tests.

To shorten the clotting time and resolve the delayed clotting or no clotting on specimens from patients on anticoagulant therapy, Becton Dickinson (BD...
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