Effect of acceleration forces during transport through a pneumatic tube system on ROTEM® analysis

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1335-1342

  Amann, Gerhard ^a   Zehntner, Christine ^a   Marti, Florian ^a   Colucci, Giuseppe ^b  

^a Kantonsspital Winterthur ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acceleration forces; Coagulation; Laboratory based ROTEM ; Pneumatic tube transport; Point of care

Indexed keywords

APROTININ;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING PARAMETERS; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRINSIC COAGULATION SYSTEM; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRINSIC COAGULATION SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PNEUMATIC TOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION THROMBELASTOMETRY DELTA 1 DEVICE; ROTATION THROMBELASTOMETRY DELTA 2 DEVICE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TUBE;

ADULT; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867753563     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2011-0800     Document Type: Article

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