1043 results about "Blood Collection Tube" patented technology

This invention discloses a donor blood donation and sampling system including a donor needle adapted for drawing blood from a body, a blood collection bag coupled to a blood collection conduit which is coupled to the donor needle, a blood sampling conduit also coupled to the donor needle, and a sampling tube assembly arranged for selectable fluid engagement with the blood sampling conduit and for selectable clamping engagement with at least said blood collection conduit. A donor blood donation and sampling method is also disclosed.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed a treatment sheath for endoscopic blood vessel harvesting, comprising a sheath main unit which can be inserted into a body through a cut skin portion in order to harvest a blood vessel in the body, a channel which is formed along a longitudinal direction in the sheath main unit and through which an endoscope is inserted so as to be insertable / detachable, a blood vessel holding member which is disposed at the sheath main unit and which holds the blood vessel to be harvested; and a blood vessel cutting device which is disposed at the sheath main unit and is positioned substantially symmetrically with the blood vessel holding member with respect to the channel and which cuts the blood vessel to be harvested.

A method and apparatus for obtaining a sample of blood. An embodiment consists of an apparatus which integrates lancing, sample collection, and analysis. The presence of patients finger on the active sampling area can be sensed by monitoring the pressure applied by the finger on the device.

A blood collection assembly includes a needle cannula with an intravenous end and a non-patient end. The cannula is mounted to a needle holder so that the non-patient end projects into the holder. A safety shield is telescoped over the needle cannula and is movable from a proximal position where the intravenous end of the cannula is exposed to a distal position where the intravenous end of the cannula is shielded. The safety shield is configured to be passively actuated and propelled into the distal position in response to insertion of a blood collection tube into the holder. However, a slide back actuator extends from the safety shield to permit the shield to be retracted into a proximal position during use and before the safety shield is locked in the distal position.

The invention relates to the technical field of clinical medical instruments, in particular to a vacuum blood collection tube and a method thereof capable of directly separating blood plasma. The vacuum blood collection tube comprises a blood collection tube body, an inner tube, a rubber plug and a filter element. The vacuum blood collection tube is characterized in that the blood collection tube inner tube is arranged in the blood collection tube body, the rubber plug is disposed at the top of the blood collection tube body, the structure of the rubber plug is close to a plug shape, a semicircle groove is disposed at the center of the upper portion of the rubber plug structure, left and right ends of the lower portion of the rubber plug are embedded into the blood collection tube body to be connected with the blood collection tube inner tube, a blood plasma outlet is disposed in the middle of the bottom of the blood collection tube inner tube, a blood plasma collecting chamber is mounted below the blood plasma outlet, a filtering membrane is arranged on the upper portion of the blood plasma outlet of the blood collection tube inner tube, the filter element is arranged on the upper portion of the filtering membrane, a buffer plate is mounted on the filter element, consequently a blood collection chamber is formed in the blood collection tube inner tube, and a layer of anticoagulant is disposed on the inner wall of the blood collection tube inner tube. The vacuum blood collection tube and the method thereof capable of directly separating the blood plasma have the advantages that physical form differences of blood visible components and plasma components are utilized, the blood plasma can be rapidly separated, and the vacuum blood collection tube and the method thereof are simple, convenient, safe and rapid.

Improvements in blood collection and testing. In one aspect, an improved method of manufacturing a blood collection tube, particularly illustrated for use in sedimentation rate testing, including providing an elongated glass tube with an open first end for receiving a venipuncture blood sample of at least 1 ml, formed with a closed end opposite the first end; and applying to a substantial portion of the receptacle a containment barrier. The improvements also pertain to resulting blood collection tubes, additives for blood collection tubes that permit reliable sedimentation test data after 8 hours from the blood draw, and methods of administering health care using the aforenoted tubes, additives or both.

The present invention provides disposable, semi-reusable, or single use reaction vessels with integrated optical elements for use with diffraction based assay systems. The vessel for assaying liquids for analytes includes a housing having at least one chamber or well for receiving a liquid therein and an optical element integrally formed with the housing for directing an incident light beam towards the well or chamber and directing a light beam away from the chamber after the light beam has interacted with analytes present in the liquid. The vessel may be test tube such as a blood collection tube, with or without, an optical element but having a pattern of analyte-specific receptors located on an inner surface of the tube wall so that when a liquid is introduced into the interior of the test tube analytes present in the liquid can bind with the pattern of analyte-specific receptors.

The invention discloses an automatic labeling and vacuum blood collection tube distributing device, which comprises a rack, a blood collection tube placement frame, a blood collection tube placement frame Y-direction linear movement device, a blood collection tube capturing claw, a blood collection tube capturing claw X-direction linear movement device, a blood collection tube capturing claw Z-direction linear movement device, a labeling device and a blood collection tube distributing box. The device has the technical effects that by the device and a method, the types or model numbers of vacuum blood collection tubes are automatically screened and identified, labels with specified contents are automatically stuck to tube walls of the vacuum blood collection tubes, and then the vacuum blood collection tubes are distributed to specified positions; therefore, the blood collection tube distributing accuracy is improved, and the technical problem of low distributing efficiency after manual labeling is solved.

Improvements in blood collection and testing. In one aspect, an improved method of manufacturing a blood collection tube, particularly illustrated for use in sedimentation rate testing, including providing an elongated glass tube with an open first end for receiving a venipuncture blood sample of at least 1 ml, formed with a closed end opposite the first end; and applying to a substantial portion of the receptacle a containment barrier. The improvements also pertain to resulting blood collection tubes, additives for blood collection tubes that permit reliable sedimentation test data after 8 hours from the blood draw, and methods of administering health care using the aforenoted tubes, additives or both.

The invention provides an intelligent blood collection tube labeling device which comprises a blood collection tube conveying mechanism, a printing and labeling mechanism, a blood collection tube outputting mechanism and a controller. The blood collection tube conveying mechanism comprises multiple layers of blood collection tube storing modules which are stacked up and down, multiple blood collection tube containing frames, a blood collection tube gripping manipulator and a conveying pipe which is vertically arranged and used for outputting blood collection tubes are arranged in each layer of the blood collection tube storing module, and the conveying pipes of all the blood collection tube storing modules correspond to one another up and down and are mutually communicated; the printing and labeling mechanism is arranged under the blood collection tube conveying mechanism; the blood collection tube outputting mechanism comprises a blood collection tube tray used for receiving the blood collection tubes output by the printing and labeling mechanism and a lifting mechanism used for driving the blood collection tube tray to do lifting motion; the controller is connected and communicated with an intelligent blood collection tube management system, and the blood collection tube gripping manipulator, the printing and labeling mechanism and the lifting mechanism are all connected with the controller and controlled by the controller. The intelligent blood collection tube labeling device can be arranged at each blood collection window to be separately used and is small in size and large blood collection tube volume.

A blood collection device adapted to receive a multi-component blood sample is disclosed. After collecting the blood sample, the blood collection device separates a plasma portion from a cellular portion. After separation, the blood collection device is able to transfer the plasma portion of the blood sample to a point-of-care testing device. The blood collection device of the present disclosure also provides a closed collection and transfer system that reduces the exposure of a blood sample and provides fast mixing of a blood sample with a sample stabilizer. The blood collection device is engageable with a blood testing device for closed transfer of a portion of the plasma portion from the blood collection device to the blood testing device. The blood testing device is adapted to receive the plasma portion to analyze the blood sample and obtain test results.

A shieldable collection needle assembly that shields the needle upon tube withdrawal includes a hub mounted on a needle cannula and a spring biased telescoping shield mounted on the hub. The needle assembly is matable with a needle holder adapted to receive the blood collection tubes. The needle assembly includes a retaining member moveably mounted on the hub and engageable with the telescoping shield when the collection tube is positioned in the needle holder. The retaining member prevents the telescoping shield from moving toward the fully extended position when engaged therewith. The telescoping shield will move toward the fully extended position when the retaining member is disengaged from the telescoping shield following removal of the collection tube from the needle holder.

Certain examples provide systems, methods, and apparatus to provide information regarding blood collection instruments via a mobile device. An example method for blood collection instrument management includes providing a graphical representation of one or more blood collection instruments with a visual indication of a status for each instrument. The graphical representation is to visually convey information regarding each of the one or more blood collection instruments and is selectable by a user to provide additional information regarding each of the one or more blood collection instruments. The method includes facilitating access to troubleshoot and interact with the one or more blood collection instruments via the mobile device. The method includes dynamically updating the status for each instrument via communication between the mobile device and one or more blood collection facilities at which the one or more blood collection instruments are located.

A blood collection device is disclosed which includes a body defining a receptacle dimensioned to receive a blood collection tube. The body has a first open end and a second end supporting a needle having a proximal end extending into the receptacle and a distal end extending distally of the body. Retaining structure is supported on the body. The retaining structure extends into the receptacle and is configured to releasably retain the blood collection tube within the receptacle.

The invention provides an intelligent blood collection management system. The management system comprises a main control system, independent blood collection tube labeling systems arranged at blood collection windows and connected in parallel with the main control system, a blood collection tube conveying system which connects all the blood collection windows in series and is used for conveying blood collection tubes after blood collection at the blood collection windows, and a blood collection tube sorting system arranged at a terminal of the blood collection tube conveying system and used for collecting the blood collection tubes conveyed through the blood collection tube conveying system, performing sorting processing on the blood collection tubes according to information of the blood collection tubes and transmitting the acquired information of the blood collection tubes to the main control system. According to the management system, the independent blood collection tube labeling systems are arranged at the blood collection windows, so that the blood collection windows can work independently and are not influenced mutually.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a blood collection tube automatic preparation device the width of which can be reduced an extreme amount and which is very compact and excels in portability. This blood collection tube automatic preparation device (A) is provided with: at least two blood collection tube storage sections (1); a label printing and affixing means (E) for affixing a printed label onto a blood collection tube; a hand-applied label printing means (F); a blood collection tube recovery section (G) able to store a hand-applied label and a blood collection tube after a label was affixed thereto; and blood collection tube transferring means (C, D) for accepting a needed blood collection tube from the corresponding blood collection tube storage section (1) and transferring the blood collection tube to the label printing and affixing means (E). The at least two blood collection tube storage sections (1) are arranged side by side in one row in a plane, and the blood collection tube transferring means (C, D), the label printing and affixing means (E), and the hand-applied label printing means (F) are arranged on top of each other beneath the blood collection tube storage sections (1).

The invention discloses a blood collection tube, and particularly relates to a circulating free DNA vacuum collection tube which can collect and preserve a blood sample under the room temperature condition. The circulating free DNA vacuum collection tube is composed of an original tube and a rubber plug; an additive and blood separating gel are contained in the original tube, 0.6-1.2 g of the blood separating gel 4 is added into the bottom of the original tube 1 with the volume of 5 ml, then 0.05-6 ml of the mixed additive is added, the original tube is vacummized, the rubber plug is connected to a tube opening of the original tube in a sealing mode, and a tag is stuck to the outer surface of the original tube; a protective cap is arranged outside the rubber plug; the rubber plug can be replaced with aluminum plastic film. According to the circulating free DNA vacuum collection tube, the collected blood sample can keep the initial state for 14 days under the room temperature condition, and a detection result is not influenced; the centrifuged blood separating gel can separate visible components in the blood from plasma, therefore, the influence of leukocytes, erythrocytes and thrombocytes on free circulating DNA in the preservation process is effectively prevented, and the separated plasma still can keep the initial state for 14 days or above; the storage and transportation conditions after blood sample collection are reduced, and the working efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a blood collection tube bottle collection device of a blood collection tube labeling machine. The blood collection tube bottle collection device of the blood collection tube labeling machine comprises a transmission system, a material shifting mechanism and a material collection hopper, wherein the transmission system is used for receiving labeled blood collection tube bottles and conveying the labeled blood collection tube bottles to the material shifting mechanism, and the material shifting mechanism shifts the labeled blood collection tube bottles into the material collection hopper. The blood collection tube bottle collection device of the blood collection tube labeling machine is simple in structure, conveneint to operate, and capable of automatically finishing collection of the blood collection tube bottles by means of the motive power of the blood collection tube labeling machine, relieves the labor intensity for operators, lowers labor cost, avoids the risk of mechanical injury to the human body in the manual operation process, and improves operation efficiency.

The invention discloses an intelligent stirring and uniformly mixing device for blood collection tubes. A movable rack is slidably matched on a base; an X-axle driving motor is used for driving the movable rack to do horizontal displacement on the base and an Z-axle driving motor is used for driving a lifting transmission mechanism to drive a rotating motor to move up and down; a rotating arm is fixedly connected to the output shaft of the rotating motor; a locking device is arranged on the rotating arm; the locking device comprises a locking sleeve, a locating sensor, a locating lock head and an electromagnetic head; the locating sensor is arranged above the locking sleeve and is used for monitoring the positions of the blood collection tubes; a lock head locating hole is formed in the sidewall of the locking sleeve; the locating lock head is movably matched in the lock head locating hole of the locking head; the locating lock head is connected to the output shaft of the electromagnetic head by virtue of a pin shaft; the electromagnetic head is fixedly arranged on the rotating arm; and the electromagnetic head is used for driving the locating lock head to firmly clamp the head cover of the blood collection tube. The intelligent stirring and uniformly mixing device disclosed by the invention can be used for uniformly mixing the blood collection tubes differing in specification in a same batch, so that the intelligent operation monitoring of the uniformly mixing device is achieved.

A needle holder for use with a needle assembly for blood collection is provided, and in particular, for use with a needle assembly including an activation mechanism adapted for axial displacement between a first position and a second position with respect to the needle assembly through engagement with a blood collection tube. The needle holder includes an outer body having a first end adapted for attachment to such a needle assembly and a second end having an internal opening therein. The needle holder further includes an inner body slidable within the outer body which includes a mechanism for axially displacing the activation mechanism between the first retracted position and the second activated position. The inner holder may be in the form of a tubular body which is axially slidable within the outer body, or may be in the form of an arm extending through a channel in the outer body, and including a tab for finger activation by a user.

The invention discloses a blood collection tube uncovering and covering all-in-one machine and a blood collection tube rack of the blood collection tube uncovering and covering all-in-one machine. In operation, blood collection tube bodies and blood collection tube caps of vacuum blood collection tubes are respectively clamped through a blood collection tube body clamping device and a blood collection tube cap clamping device, wherein the blood collection tube body clamping device controls the separation of a plurality of abreast gripper components through a first motor, and therefore the vacuum blood collection tubes can be placed in the gripper components, and the closing of the gripper components is controlled to guarantee that the blood collection tube bodies of the vacuum blood collection tubes are stably clamped; and meanwhile, the blood collection tube cap clamping device controls a third worm gear and third worm component to work through a third motor so as to achieve the opening and closing of the blood collection tube caps of the vacuum blood collection tubes. Through the structural design, the blood collection tube uncovering and covering all-in-one machine and the blood collection tube rack of the blood collection tube uncovering and covering all-in-one machine can reduce biohazards, improve safety production capability, reduce manpower cost, improve labor efficiency, promote the automation, the informatization and the intelligentization levels of medical laboratories, reduce resource cost, and improve work efficiency.

The invention discloses a blood collection tube sorting machine and a control method of the machine. The machine comprises a distinguishing device, a transmission device, a moving-out device and a control device; blood collection tubes move in the transmission device along the specified path, the distinguishing device distinguishes the blood collection tubes and outputs distinguishing data to the control device, the distinguishing data are compared with preset standard distinguishing data in the control device, and a determined control instruction is output to the moving-out device; the moving-out device moves the corresponding blood collection tubes out of the transmission device according to the control instruction. According to the blood collection tube sorting machine, the blood collection tubes are distinguished through the distinguishing device, according to the distinguishing signal, the corresponding moving-out device is controlled to move the blood collection tubes out of the transmission device at the proper position, and therefore blood collection tubes of different distinguishing characteristics can be sorted. Labor force is saved, and mistaken sorting of the blood collection tubes can be avoided.

The invention relates to an internal sticky mat membrane vacuum plain tube comprising a vacuum test tube, a seal diaphragm and an elastic cushion. The elastic cushion is arranged in a vacuum test tube chamber, coated with silastic directly, self-shaped and adhered to the inner surface of the seal diaphragm. The seal diaphragm and a test tube mouth are sealed. The outer surface of the seal diaphragm is designed to be concave for paracentetic needle guiding. The design of the built-in elastic cushion ensures that the cushion does not drop off or is polluted easily. In addition, the minimum puncture strength of a paracentetic needle can be realized for equipment protection and easy operation.

The invention discloses a vacuum test tube which comprises a vacuum tube containing hirudin as anticoagulant therein. The hirudin can be in the form of freeze-dried powder or spray-dried powder or aqueous solution, or modified with polyethylene glycol or encapsulated in liposome. The content of the hirudin in the vacuum tube is 100-2000 ATU per milliliter of blood. The hirudin has an amino acid sequence (see sequence 1 in the sequence table). The vacuum test tube of the invention is used in clinical biochemistry, clinical immunology, clinical hemorheology, immune prototype analysis, RT-PCR detection and clinical hematological examinations (except cruor parameters) and realizes versatility of laboratory examinations.

In the blood-sampling-tube preparation device according to the present invention, the each blood-sampling-tube containing section is provided with a number of compartments along a periphery thereof, in which the blood-sampling-tubes are contained one by one in a laying state, and an opening portion at a lower portion thereof for discharging the blood-sampling-tube from the each compartment, the compartments in each of the blood-sampling-tube containing section are intended to be moved in a peripheral direction thereof so that the blood-sampling-tube contained in the compartment aligned with the opening portion falls through the opening portion by moving the compartments at a suitable distance along the peripheral direction, and the blood-sampling-tube transferring means is arranged under the opening portions of the blood-sampling-tube containing sections for receiving the blood-sampling-tube felt from the each blood-sampling-tube containing section. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a complicated mechanism for taking out the blood-sampling-tube from the blood-sampling-tube containing section. And therefore, the blood-sampling-tube preparation device can be structurally simplified and miniaturized (FIG. 2).

A vacuum blood collection tube (100) comprises a bottomed tube (101) composed of a low temperature resistant material that is less susceptible to low temperature fracture when cryopreserved at ultra-low temperature, a stopper (102) having a needle piercing portion (113) composed of a rubber material that can be pierced with a blood collection needle (110), and a cryopreservation cap (103) composed of the low temperature resistant material. Before blood collection, the stopper (102) is attached to the bottomed tube (101) to maintain the reduced pressure state inside the bottomed tube (101). Thus, blood collection by a vacuum blood collection method is possible. After blood collection, the cryopreservation cap (103) is attached to the bottomed tube (101), so that the liquid tight state of the bottomed tube (101) is maintained, and cryopreservation at ultra-low temperature as it is possible. Thus, the collected blood sample can be cryopreserved at ultra-low temperature as it is, without being transferred to another blood storage container, so that effort and burden on an operator can be significantly reduced.

This invention of the automatically retractable safety blood sampler comprises a needle with a needle hub, a needle tube, a rubber washer, and a protective sheath, a cap, a barrel, a spring, and a blood collection tube. With blood collected, the blood collection tube is used for coercing the needle head to move forward, driving a sliding movement between slides on the needle hub and the snap hook on the barrel via the spring's force to automatically complete retraction of the needle head.

A donated blood collection kit includes an easy-to-open closed container. Stored within the container are items necessary or useful for collecting donated blood, such as an antiseptic scrub, an antiseptic swab, test tubes, a blood collection container, a gauze pad and a sheet of pre-printed adhesive barcode labels. Each kit is assigned a unique identification when the kit is manufactured. The identification may eventually be used as the unique donor identification for a unit of donated blood that is collected using the items in the kit. The container is pre-labeled with the unique identification, such as by a barcode or an RF-ID tag. The test tubes and, if included, the blood collection container are pre-labeled with the same unique donor identification. The adhesive barcode labels in the container are pre-printed with the same unique donor identification and may be affixed to items that are not provided in the kit but, nonetheless, should be associated with the unit of blood that may be collected using the kit. Information about lot numbers and expiration dates for the items in the kit may be encoded in the kit's unique identification and / or stored in a database in association with the kit's identification.

The invention discloses a vein blood sample shaking up device for a clinical laboratory of a hospital. The vein blood sample shaking up device comprises a base, a guide rod, a screw rod, a hoisting block, an arc-shaped clamping claw, a shaking up platform, a rectangular translation frame, a driving motor, an incomplete gear and a fixed sleeve ring, and is characterized in that the hoisting block is mounted on the screw rod through a thread; a clamping force arm is fixedly mounted at the right end of a shaft sleeve through a connecting rod; gears are arranged at front and rear sides in the rectangular translation frame; the gears in the rectangular translation frame are adaptive to a gear on the incomplete gear; the fixed sleeve ring is fixedly connected to the rear side of the rectangular translation frame trough a connecting rod. According to the vein blood sample shaking up device disclosed by the invention, a test tube is indirectly driven by manually rotating a shaking up wheel to move downward into the fixed sleeve ring, so that the shaking up of blood collection tubes with different lengths is met and the commonality of the shaking up device is improved; the incomplete gear is matched with the rectangular translation frame so that the fixed sleeve ring moves leftward and rightward and the blood collection tubes are driven to swing leftward and rightward, and furthermore, the shaking up effect of vein blood is improved.