Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine
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Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. · Feb 2007
Effects of a pneumatic tube system on routine and novel hematology and coagulation parameters in healthy volunteers.
Technologic 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. ⋯ Although 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.