Plastic containers and the whole-blood clotting test: glass remains the best option

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1168-1172

  Stone, Richard ^a   Seymour, Jamie ^b   Marshall, Oliver ^b  

^a CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glass; Plastic; Snake bite; Whole blood clotting test; Whole blood coagulation time

Indexed keywords

GLASS; PLASTIC; POLYCARBONATE; POLYETHYLENE; POLYPROPYLENE; SNAKE VENOM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTAINER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; SNAKEBITE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLASS; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PLASTICS; SNAKE VENOMS; WHOLE BLOOD COAGULATION TIME;

PSEUDECHIS AUSTRALIS;

EID: 33749055927     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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