Covid has again brought attention to supply chain issues, this time regarding shortages of blood collection ... tubes. Vacuum tubes, aka "vacutainers," are made of either plastic or glass. The ...

The selection and design of blood collection tubes have emerged as critical factors in clinical chemistry, influencing both the integrity of analytes and the efficiency of laboratory workflows.

Jan 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. health regulator said on Wednesday it was expanding the medical device shortage list to include all blood specimen collection tubes due to supply challenges led by an ...

Credit: Becton, Dickinson and Company. The system consists of a capillary blood collection tube and a finger sleeve that is intended for use by a trained health care provider, without the need of ...

As a secondary endpoint, the decrease in hemoglobin was numerically but not significantly smaller after ICUs transitioned to smaller blood collection tubes. The rate of specimens with insufficient ...