Red Marble Blood Tube

These tubes can be used for blood bank tests.

Red marble blood tube.

Pink top tube edta this tube contains edta as an anticoagulant. Plastic tube 13 x 100 16 x 100. Welcome back to another thrilling marble race duel here at m h racing. Gold or red gray marble stopper two types sst serum separator tube.

Sps tubes have a paler colour sometimes leading confusion. It contains a clot activator. Hemogardtm gold top conventional red gray marble. Red top tube glass this tube is a plain glass vacutainer containing no clot activators anticoagulants preservatives or separator material.

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. Any of a number of blood collection tubes which contain a special gel that separates cells from serum and material that causes clotting. These tubes are used to separate the blood cells from the serum. Trademarked versions include covidien corvac tubes.

These tubes are preferred for blood bank tests. Tubes with orange or gray yellow tops are used to test serum that is needed. Marble top tubes are also referred to as tiger tops in some clinics. They contain a special gel that separates blood cells from serum as well as particles to cause blood to clot.

There are two kinds of sst tubes. The tube must be inverted five times following blood collection. Tubes with a red stopper are used to collect serum to test for routine donor screening or infectious disease. Polymer gel and powdered glass clot activator.

5 0 ml 8 5 ml. Gold or red gray tube also known as a tiger tube that contains a clot activator. One tube has a gold stopper and the other has a red gray marble stopper. 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. These tubes have a clot activator on the glass and a polymer gel as the separator. Excessive bleeding longer than five minutes should be brought to the attention of the physician. The list below lists the most commonly used blood collection tubes their additives and uses in laboratory.

Also a clot tube eg red top tube or gel barrier that does not clot should be brought to the attention of the physician.