The FDA is recommending that healthcare providers only perform blood draws considered medically necessary, after interruptions in the nationwide supply chain and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused ...

Healthcare has grappled with a shortage of sodium citrate blood collection tubes — those with a light blue top — since June 2021. But according to an FDA update earlier this year, all blood collection ...

The selection and design of blood collection tubes have emerged as critical factors in clinical chemistry, influencing both the integrity of analytes and the efficiency of laboratory workflows. Modern ...

Using smaller vials to collect blood samples from people in intensive care could help to prevent risky transfusions. The simple change could lower the risk of complications and preserve valuable ...

A laboratory technician places human blood samples on an automated testing line. This laboratory, which operates a fully automated system complete with advanced robotics, can test more than 50,000 ...

Theranos had a lot of bad ideas, but making blood draws smaller and easier wasn’t necessarily one of them. A decade after the now-defunct blood-testing startup emerged from stealth, BD has now claimed ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Switching to routine use of small-volume blood draws in adult intensive care units (ICUs) for most laboratory testing appeared to cut blood transfusions without compromising those ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Blood Collection Devices - A Global Market Overview" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global Blood Collection Devices market is estimated ...

That was the vision of Ben Casavant and Erwin Berthier when they dreamed up the business in their University of Wisconsin lab. It was 2011, and the pair were conducting doctoral research: Casavant ...

Medically reviewed by Archana Sharma, DO An MCV test measures the average size and volume of your red blood cells.Low MCV suggests microcytic anemia, with red blood cells smaller than normal.High MCV ...