Talk:Vacutainer

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[edit] Delisted GA

Hi. I have removed this article from the Wikipedia:Good article listing due to the following:

No references. One of the GA criteria is that a reference section must be provided. Inline citations are preferred but not required. When this issue has been addressed, please feel free to re-nominate. Thanks! Air.dance 04:06, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Per your comment on your talk page, I've relisted it. I also took the opportunity to add a references section. :-) --TreyHarris 05:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Looks great and is GA material all the way. Sorry about the mix-up! Air.dance 05:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lithium Citrate?

Hi,

Just used your article for a session with a group of Trainee Biomedical Scientists in a Biochemistry Laboratory and noticed a possible mistake...

In the "contents of tubes" section the following line is present...

"The substances may include anticoagulants (EDTA, lithium citrate, heparin) or a gel with intermediate density between blood cells and blood plasma."

It is a sodium salt of citrate which is used as an anticoagulant and a lithium salt of heparin.

Other than that it is a great article.

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.6.139.11 (talk • contribs).

I changed "lithium citrate" in the above excerpt to "sodium citrate." I left heparin without a cation because the article later mentions a few different ones that are used. I don't really know what I'm talking about, and you seem to, so feel free to edit the article directly. :) --Loudsox 21:58, 17 July 2006 (UTC)