Studies on the use of BD Vacutainer® SST II™ and RST™ in general practice: Investigation of artefactual hyperkalaemia

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-37

  Huyghe, Tine ^a   Buntinx, Frank ^a   Bruyninckx, Rudi ^a   Besard, Veerle ^b   Vunckx, Jos ^c   Church, Stephen ^d   Byron, Karen ^e   Rosa, Renee ^e   Blanckaert, Norbert ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Practimed   (Belgium)

^c Labo MCH Leuven   (Belgium)

^d Medical and Clinical Affairs   (United Kingdom)

^e BD Technologies   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Analytes; Clinical studies; Electrolytes; Evaluation of new methods; Laboratory methods

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRIFUGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOHYPERKALEMIA;

ANALYTES; CLINICAL STUDIES; ELECTROLYTES; EVALUATION OF NEW METHODS; LABORATORY METHODS;

ARTIFACTS; BELGIUM; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; ELECTROLYTES; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHLEBOTOMY; POTASSIUM;

EID: 84899534084     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 17581001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004563213488758     Document Type: Article

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