Avoiding Hemolysis Blood Sample Collection Processing

February 11, 2019

Depending on your point of view, red blood cells, or erythrocytes, are throwaways and a nuisance, ruining a good blood specimen if the cells burst and contaminate the sample. On the other hand, erythrocytes have significant value in specific types of research, and if your objective is biobanking these cells in an intact state then hemolysis and the need for a re-draw is equally as much to be avoided

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