Has anyone checked these tubes for endocrine tests + GENERAL CHEMISTRY.
bharat
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From: Dr Bhushan Kapur [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Vacutainer SST II
We have looked at serum methadone levels and these are lower
in SST tubes.
bhushan
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At 05:05 PM 02-06-2002 +0000, Wayne Bradbury wrote:
>Our Becton-Dickinson representive has told us about their
new Vacutainer
>serum separator tubes (SST II, with a white gel) which are
not supposed to
>absorb certain drugs.
>
>We currently use plastic SST's (yellow gel) but do not
accept these for
>phenytoin, carbamazepine, progesterone and some other
analytes because
>of the problem of absorbtion by the gel.
>
>B-D can only supply me with information on the "top 20"
tests and I can find
>little in the literature specifically relating to the
effect of SST II's.
>
>Has anyone out there checked out SST II's (glass or
plastic), particularly
>for the more esoteric tests such as drugs and hormones?
>
>Mr WH Bradbury
>Consultant Biochemist
>Cumberland Infirmary
>Carlisle
>
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