Robbie Coull <[log in to unmask]>typed
> In fact don't use Vacutainer at all!
> The other system (?monojet) system is FAR easier and safer to use.
> Vacutainer has been a disaster from the start:
> - glass syringes
I presume you mean specimen tubes. Plastic specimen tubes are available.
I don't know whether they were initially but the plastic tubes
superceded the glass ones in one in which Trust I worked.
> - yellow screw on tops that were supposed to be multi use but had to be
> switched to single use after contamination risk became apparent
I don't think they cost much and big syringes are very expensive. There
are always some things that can only be used once when blood is taken.
> - can only be used as a vacuum (monojet can be set as a vacuum by removing
> the plunger or as standard syringe by using the plunger)
The vacuum can't be overdone as in a big syringe, causing, guess what?
Haemolysis!
> -can't be used with butterflies or venflons (whereas monojet has an adaptor
> and can be used as a normal syringe)
Luer adaptors *are* available for Vacutainers, allowing blood to be
withdrawn from cannulae.
> - frequently needs to be used as an 'open' system by injecting from a normal
> syringe into the tube (monojet does not have this problem, as it can always
> be used as a closed system).
Not if you use the Luer adaptors...
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