Influence of centrifuge brake on residual platelet count and routine coagulation tests in citrated plasma

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 292-295

  Daves, Massimo ^a   Giacomuzzi, Katia ^a   Tagnin, Enrico ^a   Jani, Erika ^a   Adcock Funk, Dorothy M ^b   Favaloro, Emmanuel J ^c   Lippi, Giuseppe ^d  

^a CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b Esoterix Inc   (United States)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Academic Hospital of Parma   (Italy)

Author keywords

Centrifugation; Coagulation; Errors; Preanalytical variability

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CITRATE SODIUM; FIBRINOGEN; CITRIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGE; CENTRIFUGE BRAKE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE POOR PLASMA; BLOOD CLOTTING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CENTRIFUGATION; CITRIC ACID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897571919     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: 14735733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBC.0000000000000026     Document Type: Article

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