RE: serum from blood sample [HAPP-L]

["Sandy Lewis" <SLewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Go ahead and centrifuge the blood.  We do that in clinical labs all the time with clot tubes.  The clot just goes to the bottom.  You'll see serum on top and even around the clot when you let it stand for awhile.

Sandy Lewis
Pierce College-Puyallup WA.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chester Harbut [mailto:charbut@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:38 AM
To: HAPS
Subject: serum from blood sample [HAPP-L] 


Hi,
   I have a couple of vials of my blood in uncitrated tubes.  How soon can
I expect to be
able to get some serum from those vials.  An hour?  Couple, three, four
hours?  Is there anything
I can do to speed up the process?  I doubt I could centrifuge them since the
blood is suppose to clot inorder to get serum.  Right?

 Thanks for your help.

Chet Harbut

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