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Premium Serum Clot Activator Tube (Red/Gold Cap)
Ensure rapid coagulation and superior serum separation for a wide range of diagnostic tests.
Our Premium Serum Clot Activator Tubes are meticulously designed to meet the rigorous demands of modern clinical laboratories, offering unparalleled efficiency, safety, and sample integrity. Engineered with advanced materials and precise additive technology, these tubes facilitate rapid blood clotting and provide a clean, high-quality serum sample, critical for accurate diagnostic results.
Product Overview
The Serum Clot Activator Tube is a medical-grade vacuum blood collection tube containing a dry additive that actively promotes and accelerates the clotting process. This significantly reduces the time required for blood to clot, enabling faster processing and improved laboratory turnaround times (TAT). Primarily used for obtaining serum, these tubes are indispensable for various clinical chemistry, immunology, serology, and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) applications.
Key Features & Benefits
Advanced Clot Activator:
Mechanism: Contains finely micronized silica particles (clot activator) coated on the inner wall of the tube. These particles provide a large surface area, initiating the intrinsic coagulation pathway.
Benefit: Dramatically accelerates the clotting time, allowing for prompt centrifugation and serum separation, enhancing laboratory efficiency.
Optimal Serum Separation (with Gel Separator option):
Thixotropic Gel (for Gold/Yellow cap variants): An inert, acrylic-based gel barrier is present at the bottom of the tube. After centrifugation, this gel forms a stable physical barrier between the serum and the cellular components.
Benefit: Prevents re-mixing of serum with the clot, minimizing contamination and analyte deterioration. Ensures a clean, high-purity serum sample, prolonging analyte stability and improving result accuracy.
Precision Vacuum System:
Mechanism: Each tube is pre-evacuated to draw a precise volume of blood.
Benefit: Guarantees an accurate blood-to-additive ratio, which is crucial for standardized and reliable test results. Reduces the risk of under-filling or over-filling.
Medical-Grade PET Material:
Material: Constructed from high-quality Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET).
Benefit: Offers superior strength, shatter resistance, and transparency compared to traditional glass tubes. Enhances user safety by minimizing breakage and associated biohazard risks.
Secure & User-Friendly Cap:
Cap Type: Features a safety-engineered rubber stopper, often with a Hemogard™ or similar design.
Cap Color:Red for Clot Activator only tubes; Gold/Yellow for Clot Activator with Gel tubes (internationally recognized color coding).
Benefit: Provides a secure, leak-proof seal during collection, transport, and centrifugation. The color coding ensures quick and accurate identification of the tube type, preventing pre-analytical errors. Minimizes aerosol formation upon uncapping.
Clear Labeling:
Features: Tubes are labeled with lot number, expiry date, fill volume, and clear indications for proper mixing.
Benefit: Ensures traceability, proper inventory management, and guides users for optimal sample processing.
Sterile & Safe:
Sterilization: Sterilized by gamma irradiation.
Benefit: Guarantees a sterile internal environment, preventing microbial contamination of the blood sample and ensuring patient safety.
Long Shelf Life:
Duration: Typically 18-24 months from the date of manufacture.
Benefit: Allows for efficient inventory management and reduces waste.
Intended Use & Applications
Our Serum Clot Activator Tubes are ideal for a broad spectrum of diagnostic tests requiring serum samples, including but not limited to:
Clinical Chemistry: Electrolytes, liver function tests, kidney function tests, glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, enzymes, total protein, albumin, etc.
