#167 LIVE! Common CBC Abnormalities with Mary Kwok MD
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Platelet Production Problem and the Platelet Destroyment Problem
The problem is that sometimes the platelets can kind of like bunch together or cause what we call platelet clumping. One way to get around that would be to run it through a blue top tube, right? The same kind of tube that you would send co-ags,. And that's a citrated tube and gets rid of the clumping issue. But do you have to do that using a different tube? Not necessarily, right? So, normal CBCs run with a EDTA purple top tube.
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