Department of Ophthalmology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0374, Japan. nshoji@kitasato-u.ac.jp.
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.). Electronic address: ebirch@retinafoundation.org.
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Radio Electronics and Multimedia Technology, Warsaw University of Technology.
Verification of blood collection tubes is essential for clinical laboratories. The aim of this study was to assess performance of candidate tubes from four alternative suppliers for routine diagnostic...
A multicentre verification study was performed in Cape Town, South Africa. Blood from 300 healthy volunteers was collected into K...
Vacucare tubes did not have a fill-line indicator, Vacuette® tubes had external blood contamination on the caps post-venesection and Vacutest® tubes had hard rubber stoppers. K...
Blood collection tubes introduce variability to routine haematology results. We recommend that laboratories use one brand of tube. Verification of new candidate tubes should be performed to ensure con...
Peripheral venous blood (PVB) gas analysis has become an alternative to arterial blood gas (BG) analysis in assessing acid-base balance. This study aimed to compare the effects of blood collection dev...
PVB-paired specimens were collected from 40 healthy volunteers into blood gas syringes (BGS) and blood collection tubes (BCT), transported by either a pneumatic tube system (PTS) or human courier (HC)...
PVB partial pressure of oxygen (pO...
Collecting PVB in BCT is unsuitable for pO...
Minimizing hemolysis during phlebotomy ensures accurate chemistry results and reduces test cancellations and specimen recollections. We developed videos demonstrating best practices to reduce hemolysi...
Videos of common blood collections demonstrating best practices to reduce hemolysis were filmed and then distributed via email link to all hospital-based CNEs in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (https://vim...
In +/- 3 months of data flanking video distribution (n = 137 241 collections), where overall impact was strongest, H-index trajectory (change in units per week) decreased immediately following video d...
We developed a novel and convenient educational aid that, when distributed, was associated with beneficial changes in specimen hemolysis at hospital inpatient units and outpatient clinics. Including i...
Clinical trials of novel therapies for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC) may benefit from immune cell profiling, however implementation of this methodology is limited in the multicenter trial s...
Whole blood samples from 3 patients with UC were collected in CPT™ (15 tubes/patient) and PBMC were processed at various timepoints (24-96 h). Cell viability and T cell composition (26 types) were eva...
Total cell viability was <50% when processing was delayed to 48 h after collection and was further reduced at later processing timepoints. The effect of delayed processing on cell abundance varied wid...
Based on these data, processing of PBMC in CPT™ should ideally be performed within 48 h. Delayed processing of PBMC in CPT™ may be considered for cell types that are robust to these conditions. Normal...
Iatrogenic blood loss is an important cause of neonatal anemia. In this study, a spreadsheet tool was developed to reduce blood collection, providing a new idea for the prevention of iatrogenic blood ...
Based on hematocrit, minimum test volume and dead volume, a new tool was to calculate the minimum blood collection volume and the number of containers required for the test portfolio. We collected dat...
During this year, there were 16,434 patients and 13,696 plasma/serological samples in the neonatology department. Among them, there were 8 test combinations of greater than 1%, and 9490 samples in tot...
We have developed an auxiliary tool that can manage neonatal blood specimen collection in a fine and personalized way and can be applied among different laboratory instruments by parameters modificati...
Blood microsampling has increasingly attracted interest in the past decades as a more patient-centric sampling approach, offering the possibility to collect a minimal volume of blood following a finge...
The objective of our study was to evaluate a single blood collection tube with a novel antithrombotic formulation to measure both hematological, biochemical, and d-dimer analytes....
Paired samples of gold standard blood tubes (EDTA, lithium heparin, sodium citrate) and a new antithrombotic formulation blood tube were collected from 187 patients. The new antithrombotic tube is a l...
All correlation coefficients were close to 0.99. The Bland-Altman analyses presented a satisfactory correspondence for all analytes. All the hematological examinations demonstrated comparable results ...
We describe a novel antithrombotic formulation tube with the potential to be introduced into clinical laboratories for simultaneous analysis of thirty-two blood analytes....
Vincristine is a well-established cytotoxic drug. In paediatric populations blood collection via venipuncture is not always feasible. Volumetric absorptive microsampling (VAMS) is a less invasive meth...
To investigate the application of intelligent puncture blood collection robots in anticoagulated blood specimens, the satisfaction of subjects with the two blood collection methods, and the feasibilit...
A total of 154 volunteers from Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University were recruited to compare the test results of anticoagulant blood samples between blood collection robot and manual blood collection,...
The blood collection robot is superior to manual specimen collection in terms of volume and pain of specimen collection, and the puncture success rate is 94.3%. The anticoagulated blood specimens coll...
The intelligent robotic blood collection is less painful and has better acceptance by patients, which can be used for clinical anticoagulated blood specimen collection....
Pre-analytical factors have a significant influence on circulating microRNA (miRNA) profiling. The aim of this study was a comprehensive assessment of the impact of the anticoagulant type in blood col...
