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Can the sodium citrate tube be used when a patient exhibits platelet clumping in an EDTA tube?

April 26, 2017CITRATE clumping EDTA exhibits patient PLATELET sodium tube Used

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Can the sodium citrate tube be used when a patient exhibits platelet clumping in an EDTA tube?

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Patricia Williamson 0 Posted

Yes sodium citrate been used as a platelel clumping in EDTA tube when it is needed and it would be really beneficial and helpful and also make works much easy too.

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Yes, the sodium citrate tube can be used to get an accurate platelet count if a patient’s platelets clump in the EDTA tube. The platelet count from the sodium citrate tube should be multiplied by 1.1 to account for the different blood to additive ratio in the citrate tube.