You are in the middle of drawing a blood specimen using the evacuated tube method when you realize that you have just filled an EDTA tube and still have a green top to collect. What do you do?

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You are in the middle of drawing a blood specimen using the evacuated tube method when you realize that you have just filled an EDTA tube and still have a green top to collect. What do you do?

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You would need to do a redraw. Residual Potassium from the EDTA would mess with the 9:1 blood to heparin ratio.

Jacob Murphy answered Sep 3, 2020

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