Unit 5: Hemoglobin Testing 26 Original: October 1999 Revision: September 2010 5 â 5 Recording Hemoglobin Values Objectives After completing this section, you will be able to: Correctly record hemoglobin values. Correctly record reasons why a hemoglobin value was not taken.
Group 7 â EDTA and ESR tubes. Black top ESR-Vacuum top with 3.2% sodium citrate: used for Westergren sedimentation rate. Group 9 â Yellow top with ACD Solution A. Yellow top tube with ACD (acid citrate dextrose) Solution A: used for whole blood determinations including flow cytometry and tissue typing assays.
PX-SC460 Order of Draw and Order of Transfer Attachment 1 Rev 1.03 (GTS) Blood Collection Tubes Order of Draw. Blood collection tubes must be filled in a specific sequence to minimize contamination of sterile specimens, avoid possible test result error caused by carryover of additives between tubes, and reduce the effect of. microclot formation in tubes.