Lavender (EDTA), 4mL

Avoid contamination with Wharton's jelly

Labelling instructions:
Tube must be labeled as "cord blood".

Excellian sites:
Tube must be labeled with the patients first and last name and Excellian MRN, date and time of collection and phlebotomist’s A#

Non-Excellian sites:
Tube must be labeled with the patient's first and last name and date of birth, date and time of collection and phlebotomist’s initials.


Any combination of the cord ABO, Rh and/or DAT testing can be perfomed off of one 4mL EDTA tube

Lavender (EDTA), 4mL

Refrigerated - 3 days

• To comply with American Association of Blood Banks Standards, the Allina Health Laboratory Transfusion Services has adopted a NO TOLERANCE policy for labeling errors. Transfusion Services will only accept specimens that are complete, accurate and legibly labeled. Specimens that do not meet the mandatory labeling requirements will be rejected.

Agglutination

The Rh blood group system is the second most important blood group system, after the ABO blood group system