Plasma sample type on i-Stat
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My site is using whole blood lith. heparin for ctnI and whole blood edta for bnp.
Has anyone using plasma as the sample type for these particular analytes to your i-Stat?
Thank you.
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Using plasma as a sample type makes it a LDT and high complexity because plasma is not an approved sample type. Just be aware of the headaches that come with that :).
We had on occasion used plasma but it has been years. I just now checked the CTI for both troponin and BNP-both state that plasma is acceptable (of course using the appropriate anticoagulant). Since there have been so many changes, I went to the Abbott site for the CTI, not trusting older ones.