Question

You are having difficulty drawing blood from a patient and try two successive light-blue–stoppered citrate tubes for the collection of a PT test. Both tubes fill only half full. To avoid redrawing the patient, you pour one tube into the other to make a full tube and send it to the laboratory. Will this affect the test results?

Answer 1

The anticoagulant will be doubled in the tube and the results will be altered in this scenario.

What are Anticoagulant?

These are substances which prevent the clotting of blood and are present in  light-blue–stoppered citrate tubes.

When you pour one tube into the other, the anticoagulant will be doubled which will affect the result.

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