Activated clotting time (POCT)
1ml fresh whole blood in a plain syringe. Syringe 0.2ml in each channel of a Low Range cartridge. Syringe 0.4ml in each channel of a High Range cartridge.
Remove 10ml blood from the catheter as waste prior to collecting the blood sample.
Specimen must be analysed within 1 minute of sample collection.
POCT
Mon - Sun, 24hrs
Up to 900 seconds
Kaolin
Seconds
High Range Cartridge: 100-140 seconds; Low Range Cartridge: 90-130 seconds
High Range cartridges: ± 4 @ 111 seconds, ± 95 @ 376 seconds, Low range Cartridges: ± 4 at 91 seconds, ± 38 @ 276 seconds.
0.9 mL
ACT
$ACT
