General Instruction:
1. Inversion
All tubes with additives should be filled to their stated volumes and gently inverted (according to recommended number of inversions) as soon as possible after filling so that the additives mix evenly throughout the specimen.
2. Blood Collection for Citrate tube
Blood must be filled at least up to the minimum fill indicator on the tube to ensure correct dilution factor of blood to citrate. Overfilled or underfilled citrate tubes will be rejected as wrong dilutions can lead to erroneous results.
3. Specimen container chart - Blood Collection Tubes (Paediatric)
4. Specimen container chart - Specimen container Chart Blood Collection Tubes (General)
5.Specimen labelling - DOs and DON'Ts of specimen labelling
6. Recommended Volume Limits for a Single Blood Draw
7. Volume guide for different test combination (in-house clinical chemistry serology tests) - only for KKH internal use
Pediatric Tube
Adult tube (Gold-SST)
Memorandum for difficult sample collections
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