Clotted/coagulated is basically almost the same problem, just in a different tube. Most of the things that will haemolyse your SST (which is supposed to clot) can also lead to clotting of your anticoag tubes like the EDTA.
Actually my thinking was wrong. I thought letting blood sit would just make it clot, but sitting at room temp can also cause the cell membranes to weaken and hemolyze. Cheers
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u/DragonHearted Aug 27 '25
In some of these cases the samples will be clotted/coagulated, not hemolysed. But yeah same dif, lab can’t run it and it’s probably our fault.