Advancing haemostasis automation - Successful implementation of robotic centrifugation and sample processing in a tertiary service hospital

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1273-1278

  Sédille Mostafaie, Nazanin ^a   Engler, Hanna ^a   Lutz, Susanne ^a   Korte, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Center for Laboratory Medicine   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automation; Centrifugation; Coagulation; Manually processed

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 11; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 12; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 9; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; ROBOTICS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBOCYTE POOR PLASMA;

AUTOMATION; CENTRIFUGATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; ROBOTICS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84875461392     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2012-0625     Document Type: Article

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