Hemolysis is the #1 source of preanalytical error and can impact potassium results—potentially leading to inappropriate or delayed patient treatment, unnecessary ...

BACKGROUND: Conventional methods for measuring the total bilirubin concentration in blood require the use of serum or plasma, but physically separating red blood cells from plasma by centrifugation is ...

Physical/chemical causes. These causes of hemolysis are most often secondary to improper handling of blood products. Reasons include inadvertent heating or freezing with subsequent thawing of the red ...

Hemolysis of serum and plasma samples is a common problem in veterinary diagnostic laboratories. We measured the effects of hemolysis on nine plasma analytes in 10 clinically normal common green ...

The patient in the case reported below received no sulfonamide. The clinical and experimental data indicate that exposure and diffuse chilling were instrumental in producing the anemia. These data are ...