• Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. · Feb 2007

    Effects of a pneumatic tube system on routine and novel hematology and coagulation parameters in healthy volunteers.

    • Alexander Kratz, Raneem O Salem, and Elizabeth M Van Cott.
    • Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. ak2651@columbia.edu
    • Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 2007 Feb 1; 131 (2): 293-6.

    ContextTechnologic advances affecting analyzers used in clinical laboratories have changed the methods used to obtain many laboratory measurements, and many novel parameters are now available. The effects of specimen transport through a pneumatic tube system on laboratory results obtained with such modern instruments are unclear.ObjectiveTo determine the effects of sample transport through a pneumatic tube system on routine and novel hematology and coagulation parameters obtained on state-of-the-art analyzers.DesignPaired blood samples from 33 healthy volunteers were either hand delivered to the clinical laboratory or transported through a pneumatic tube system.ResultsNo statistically significant differences were observed for routine complete blood cell count and white cell differential parameters or markers of platelet activation, such as the mean platelet component, or of red cell fragmentation. When 2 donors who reported aspirin intake were excluded from the analysis, there was a statistically, but not clinically, significant impact of transport through the pneumatic tube system on the mean platelet component. There were no statistically significant differences for prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time, waveform slopes for prothrombin time or activated partial thromboplastin time, fibrinogen, or fibrin monomers.ConclusionsAlthough further study regarding the mean platelet component may be required, transport through a pneumatic tube system has no clinically significant effect on hematology and coagulation results obtained with certain modern instruments in blood samples from healthy volunteers.

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