Hemolysis is the #1 source of preanalytical error and can impact potassium results—potentially leading to inappropriate or delayed patient treatment, unnecessary ...

Physical/chemical causes. These causes of hemolysis are most often secondary to improper handling of blood products. Reasons include inadvertent heating or freezing with subsequent thawing of the red ...

The patient in the case reported below received no sulfonamide. The clinical and experimental data indicate that exposure and diffuse chilling were instrumental in producing the anemia. These data are ...

Proteomic research drives breakthroughs in biomarker discovery, disease diagnostics and precision medicine. Yet, preanalytical challenges such as hemolysis, platelet activation and protein degradation ...