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BD Vacutainer Venous Blood Collection
Tube Guide ®
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BD Hemogard Closure Conventional Stopper Additive Collection* Laboratory Use Draw Volume/Remarks
• Clot activator and gel For serum determinations in chemistry. May be used for
5 routine blood donor screening and diagnostic testing of
Red/ for serum separation
Gold serum for infectious disease.** Tube inversions ensure
Black
mixing of clot activator with blood. Blood clotting time:
30 minutes.
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• Lithium heparin 8 BD Vacutainer PST Tube for plasma determinations
Light Green/ and gel for plasma in chemistry. Tube inversions prevent clotting.
Green Gray separation

• None (glass) 0 For serum determinations in chemistry. May be used for

• Clot activator (plastic) 5 routine blood donor screening and diagnostic testing of
Red serum for infectious disease.** Tube inversions ensure
mixing of clot activator with blood. Blood clotting time:
60 minutes.

• Thrombin 8 For stat serum determinations in chemistry. Tube

Gray/ inversions ensure complete clotting, which usually
Orange occurs in less than 5 minutes.
Yellow

• Clot activator (plastic serum) 8 For trace-element, toxicology, and nutritional-

• K2EDTA (plastic) 8 chemistry determinations. Special stopper
Royal formulation provides low levels of trace
Blue 0
elements (see package insert).
5
8
• Sodium heparin 8 For plasma determinations in chemistry.
• Lithium heparin 8 Tube inversions prevent clotting.
Green

• Potassium oxalate/ 8 For glucose determinations. Oxalate and EDTA

sodium fluoride anticoagulants will give plasma samples.
Gray Sodium fluoride is the antiglycolytic agent.
• Sodium fluoride/Na2 EDTA 8
• Sodium fluoride (serum tube) Tube inversions ensure proper mixing of
8 additive and blood.
• K2EDTA (plastic) 8 For lead determinations. This tube is certified
to contain less than .01 µg/mL(ppm) lead. Tube
My Library Tan
8
inversions prevent clotting.

• Sodium 8 SPS for blood culture specimen collections in

polyanethol sulfonate (SPS) microbiology. Tube inversions prevent clotting.
Yellow
• Acid citrate dextrose
additives (ACD): ACD for use in blood bank studies, HLA
Solution A - 8 phenotyping, and DNA and paternity testing.
22.0 g/L trisodium citrate,
8.0 g/L citric acid,
24.5 g/L dextrose
Solution B - 8
13.2 g/L trisodium citrate,
4.8 g/L citric acid,
14.7 g/L dextrose
• Liquid K3EDTA (glass) 8 K2EDTA and K3EDTA for whole blood hematology
• Spray-coated K2EDTA 8 determinations. K2EDTA may be used for routine
Lavender immunohematology testing and blood donor
(plastic)
screening.*** Tube inversions prevent clotting.

• K2EDTA with gel 8 For use in molecular diagnostic test methods

(such as but not limited to polymerase chain
White reaction [PCR] and/or branched DNA [bDNA]
amplification techniques).

• Spray-coated K2EDTA 8 For whole blood hematology determinations. May be

used for routine immunohematology testing and blood
Pink New donor screening.*** Designed with special cross-match
label for patient information required by the AABB.
Tube inversions prevent clotting.
• Buffered sodium citrate 3-4 For coagulation determinations. CTAD for
selected platelet function assays and routine
Light
Blue
Clear coagulation determination. Tube inversions
• Citrate, theophylline, 3-4 prevent clotting.
adenosine, dipyridamole
(CTAD)
• None (plastic) 0 For use as a discard tube or secondary specimen
New collection tube.
Clear
Red/
Gray

Partial-draw Tubes Small-volume Pediatric Tubes

(2 mL and 3 mL: 13 x 75 mm) (2 mL: 10.25 x 47 mm, 3 mL: 10.25 x 64 mm)
• None 0 For serum determinations in chemistry. May be used for
routine blood donor screening, immunohematology
Red testing,*** and diagnostic testing of serum for infectious
disease.** Tube inversions ensure mixing of clot activator
with blood. Blood clotting time: 60 minutes.