Effect of carryover of clot activators on coagulation tests during phlebotomy

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 900-903

  Fukugawa, Yoko ^a   Ohnishi, Hiroaki ^a   Ishii, Takahiro ^a   Tanouchi, Ayako ^a   Sano, Junko ^a   Miyawaki, Haruko ^a   Kishino, Tomonori ^a   Ohtsuka, Kouki ^a   Yoshino, Hideaki ^b   Watanabe, Takashi ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Phlebotomy; PT INR; Venipuncture; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; D DIMER; FIBRIN MONOMER; FIBRINOGEN; THROMBIN; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULATION TUBE CONTAMINATION; CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DEVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; SERUM; SERUM TUBE; THROMBOSIS; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; PHLEBOTOMY; THROMBIN; WARFARIN;

EID: 84863737944     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPL3LZZN9WJGZT     Document Type: Article

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