Dear collective.

Until recently, we have used Sarstedt paediatric specimen tubes which have come in opaque containers. They have recently stopped producing these and we can’t locate any suitable replacements.

I would be grateful if users with large neonatal populations would share with me which tubes they use. We have discounted gel tubes because of the poor yield of plasma that we have observed and need opaque tubes because we have a large number of bilirubins collected from babies in community.

 

Regards and Happy New Year

Ian

 

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Ian Mills

Pre registrant Clinical Scientist

Clinical Chemistry

Birmingham Women’s Hospital

0121 627 2731