Blood Collection Equipment

Blood collection equipments are used in hospitals, clinics, blood donation camps and research laboratories for drawing blood from donors. The use of sophisticated blood collecting apparatus ensures the safety of blood donors as well as lab personnel. With the use of blood collection systems entire process of blood donation becomes quite easy and safe. It helps in drawing the exact amount of blood required. A number of blood collection devices are used now-a-days. Below here are described some common ones:

Types of Blood Collection Equipment

Blood Collection Monitor/ Mixer          send query for this product
Blood collection monitor is one of the widely used devices at all the places where blood collection process is involved. It is also known as blood collection mixer. The blood collection monitors are designed to make blood donation simple and safe. The use of blood collection monitors ensure that exactly the desired amount of blood is taken from the donor's body. It ensures safety to the donor as well as to the recipient.

Blood collection mixer has a display panel that shows the exact volume of blood collected in the blood bag. When the preset amount of blood is drawn from the donor's body, it automatically closes the tube clamp. The total time taken during the procedure is also shown on the display unit.

Blood collection monitor is a must have equipment for the hospitals and blood donation camps. Each and every donation process should be handled with extreme care, ensuring complete comfort and optimal safety for the donor. Blood collection monitors are used for uniform and gentle mixing of blood with the anticoagulant solution already filled in the blood collection bags. The mixing ensures that blood doesn't clot during collection and afterwards and minimizes any wastage of blood.

General Features of Blood Collection Monitors
The blood collection monitors of two different manufacturers differ from each other in various respects but there are certain features which can be found in all monitors. Here is listed some of them:

• The weight or volume of blood to draw is fed initially before starting the procedure.
• The volume of blood withdrawn is displayed on the screen in real time.
• The blood bag is continually agitated by the device.
• Audio alarm in case of any flow problem and at the end of venipuncture.
• Both AC and DC power is provided for more autonomy.

Blood Collection Tubes
Blood collecting tubes are very popular blood collection equipment. They are largely used in clinics and laboratories for collecting blood samples. Serum and plasma specimens need to be prepared in various professional diagnostic tests that demand blood collection tubes. The tubes contains certain specific additives depending on the requirement.

Blood collection tubes are made of glass and plastics. Plastic blood collection tubes are considered safer than the glass ones because they are made of virtually unbreakable plastics. Though earlier in case of evacuated blood collection tubes, glass tubes were used because it was not possible to maintain vacuum in other materials for longer periods. It protects the personnel, phlebotomist and other health-care workers in the surrounding. Vacuum blood collection tubes have several advantages including, constant high quality of samples and analysis results. It minimizes the infection risk involved with staff responsible for collecting and processing blood samples.