Any suspicion they’re using syringes and needles?
One of our Registrars once went to observe procedures to work out why this was happening. This either succeeded or failed because the haemolysis immediately stopped.
Jonathan
> On 19 Oct 2016, at 16:16, Philip R Wenham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear colleagues
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> We appear to be experiencing greater than usual haemolysis rates from some ward based locations in samples collected into BD SST and PST blood tubes. To clarify, I do not include the ED, where known issues have been well reported previously.
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> Has anyone encountered this problem recently and if so did they find a solution?
>
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