1888 Mills 367815 - Vacutainer Serum Tube, Clot Activator, Silicone-Coated Interior, Plastic, Red Hemogard Closure, 13 x 100 mm, 6 mL, 100/BX, 10 BX/CS
BD 367815 Vacutainer Serum Tube, Clot Activator, Silicone-Coated Interior, Plastic, Red Hemogard Closure
BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Serum Tubes have spray-coated silica and are used for serum determinations in chemistry. Samples processed in these tubes may also be used for routine blood donor screening, immunohematology, and diagnostic testing of serum for infectious disease.*
Note: * The performance characteristics of these tubes have not been established for infectious disease testing in general; therefore, users must validate the use of these tubes for their specific assay instrument/reagent system combinations and specimen storage conditions.
- BD Vacutainer Serum tubes are used to obtain a serum sample. The tubes are available in plastic, a range of sizes and can be identified by a red cap.
- BD Vacutainer Serum tubes are also available with a pink cap and crossmatch label for transfusion samples.
- BD Vacutainer Serum tubes are also available with the additive thrombin, which significantly accelerates the clotting time. An orange cap identifies BD Vacutainer thrombin tubes.
Why BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Tubes?
Clinical Expertise: The efficacy, performance, and ease of use of BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Tubes are clinically proven and supported by more than 100 clinical studies involving a vast array of analytes and diagnostic instruments. Your BD Sales Consultant can provide further information and documentation from our library of clinical data.
Experience: The BD legacy of innovative medical technology dates back more than a century. Most notable of our early blood collection innovations is the introduction and subsequent patent in 1949 of the worlds first blood collection tube. The first BD plastic blood collection tube was introduced in 1991. This marked another technological achievement from BD that followed years of design, testing, and clinical trial evaluations. BD produces in excess of 3.5 billion tubes annually, earning it the designation of the worlds largest manufacturer of evacuated blood collection tubes.
Compatibility: To ensure that BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Tubes are compatible with major diagnostic systems, BD maintains ongoing discussions with the instrument manufacturers who are on the cutting edge of tomorrows diagnostic technologies.
Safety: BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Blood Collection Tubes are proven to be a safer alternative to glass. Our plastic tubes are virtually break resistant, thus helping to protect healthcare personnel from injury and exposure to bloodborne pathogens. The BD Vacutainer Hemogard Closure is a safetyengineered closure, featuring an integrated shield that prevents human contact with blood on the stopper or tube rim and effectively guards against blood splatter and splashing.
Cost Effectiveness: BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Tubes can be disposed of safely and efficiently by incineration, thereby reducing medical waste disposal costs. The durability and safety of BD Vacutainer Plus Plastic Tubes help to decrease turnaround time and improve laboratory efficiency by providing a high quality specimen and by helping to minimize risk of bloodborne pathogen infection to the laboratorian.
BD Clinical Advantage
According to CLSI, drawing a discard volume is required for the following circumstances:
When using a winged blood collection set for venipuncture and a coagulation (citrate) tube is the first specimen tube to be drawn, a discard tube should be drawn first. The discard tube must be used to fill the blood collection set tubings dead-space with blood but the discard tube does not need to be completely filled. This important step will ensure maintenance of the proper blood-to-additive ratio of the blood specimen. The discard tube should be a nonadditive or coagulation tube.
When a line has been flushed with a solution, it is necessary to clear the line of this fluid before drawing a specimen. The volume discarded depends on the dead-space within the line and is equivalent to 2 times the dead-space volume for noncoagulation tests, and 5 mL or six times the dead-space volume for coagulation tests.
Device Characteristics
| What MRI safety information does the labeling contain? | Labeling does not contain MRI Safety Information |
| Device required to be labeled as containing natural rubber latex or dry natural rubber (21 CFR 801.437): | No |
| Device labeled as "Not made with natural rubber latex": | No |
| For Single-Use: | Yes |
| Prescription Use (Rx): | Yes |
| Over the Counter (OTC): | No |
| Kit: | No |
| Combination Product: | No |
| Human Cell, Tissue or Cellular or Tissue-Based Product (HCT/P): | No |
