Anticoagulants Flashcards
AC: Yellow top
Sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS)
Order of Draw
Yellow Blue Red Green Lavender Gray Black
AC: Blue top
Trisodium citrate
AC: Red top
None
AC: Green top
Heparin
AC: Purple top
Ethylenediamineteraacetic acid
AC: Gray top
Sodium fluoride/Potassium oxalate
Combines with Calcium to form an insoluble salt
Oxalate
Combines with Calcium in an non-ionized form
Citrate
Combines with calcium in the process called “chelation”
EDTA
Forms weakly dissociated calcium components
Fluoride
Heparin is also known as ________
Mucoitin polysulfonic acid
Acts as antithrombin and antithrompolastin
Heparin
Anti-factor X
Heparin
Ideal universal AC
Heparin
Interfere with Na, K and most BUN (Urease) measurements (give 2)
Oxalate and Fluoride
2 forms of EDTA
Versene and Sequestrene
Available as sodium, lithium, potassium and ammonium salts
Heparin
