International Council for Standardization in Haematology (ICSH) recommendations for processing of blood samples for coagulation testing.
Dear friends, Sorry, I could not post anything in the last 8 months. Hoping to write regularly henceforth. Thank you all for your support and wishes. International Council for Standardization in Haematology (ICSH) establishes guidelines on various hematology laboratory tests and diseases to help the hematology community in having universal standards of laboratory tests and reporting. The ICSH recommendations for processing of coagulation testing has been published in August 2021. The article is freely downloadable from the website. I have summed up the recommendations in this post and will continue the remaining in the next post. Storage: Recommendation 1: Whole blood samples for coagulation tests should be maintained at an ambient temperature of 18-24°C during transport and storage prior to processing. Pneumatic tube transport systems Recommendation 2: Pneumatic tube transport systems should not be used to transport citrated blood samples prior to tests of platelet functi