These tubes have a clot activator on the glass and a polymer gel as the separator.
Marble blue blood collection tube.
Since it is bound up the blood cannot clot resulting in a whole blood sample red blood cells and plasma.
There are two kinds of sst tubes.
One tube has a gold stopper and the other has a red gray marble stopper.
Bd vacutainer plastic tubes offer a safe method of blood collection and reduce the potential for tube breakage and specimen spillage thereby reducing the potential for exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
Sodium citrate 3 2 or 3 8 and ctad citrate theophylline adenosine dipyridamole.
These tubes are used to separate the blood cells from the serum.
Light blue top tube tubes with light blue stoppers shields contain two additives.
As an anticoagulant citrate binds the calcium in blood that is needed for clotting.
Calcium is required for blood clotting.
Citrate is an anticoagulant which binds calcium in the blood.
The tube must be inverted five times following blood collection.