Results of using Luer-Lok access device for clinics, intensive care units, and emergency services with high pre-analytical errors: analysis of 491.850 samples

Abstract

The effectiveness of the Luer-Lok™ Access Device (LL) with the intravenous catheter (IVC) on sample rejections, which is used to prevent primarily hemolysis in the emergency department (ED), clinics, and intensive care units (ICU), was examined.

Keywords

• clot
• extra-analytical phase
• hemolysis
• luer-lok
• pre-analytical phase
• sample rejection