Sorting Samples: Automated tube handling system promotes accurate human fluid analysis

摘要

When clinical lab scientists research and analyze human fluids to develop new drugs, find cures, prescribe treatment or solve crimes, they require samples not compromised by contamination, infection or mis-identification. In most clinical labs, tubes of samples usually arrive during the morning mixed in boxes or bags sent directly from the extraction centers. Depending on the daily quantity of tubes that arrive at the lab, up to three people could have the morning chore of sorting each by type, manually placing them on trays and then distributing the samples to the different lab departments (hematology, biochemistry, immunology, etc.)