Rihab Makhlouf, Sana Fendri, Dana Jallouli, Zeineb Labiadh, Lotfi Fritis, Khansa Chaabouni, Aida Elleuch, Fatma Ayedi
INTRODUCTION: The pneumatic tube system (PTS) is an automated and fast modality of transportation of biological samples, but it has been reported to induce preanalytical errors. AIM: to study the influence of transportation by PTS on biochemistry tests which are particularly sensitive to hemolysis and atmospheric pressure variation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We compared laboratory results of arterial blood gas, sodium, potassium, chloride, lactate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, glucose and hemolysis index of samples conveyed simultaneously by PTS and by courier...
November 3, 2023: Annals of Clinical Biochemistry