Plasminogen
(PLG)

Sample type

Plasma(sodium citrate 3.2%)

Uses

Deficiencies are associated with arterial and venous thromboses

Precautions

• Draw blood in a light blue-top tube containing 3.2% sodium citrate, mix gently by inverting 3-4 times.

• Centrifuge 15 minutes at 1500 g within one hour of collection. Using a plastic pipette, remove plasma, taking care to avoid the WBC/platelet buffy layer and place into a plastic vial.

• Centrifuge a second time and transfer platelet-poor plasma into a new plastic vial (s). Freeze immediately and transport on dry ice.

Interfering factors

Hemolysis

Grossly lipemic

Grossly lcteric

Clotting

Pre-analytical errors

1- Improper tube,clotted,hemolyzed samples,underfilled tubes, overfilled tubes,mislabbeled or unlabeled samples.

2- If the samples is grossly lipemic after centrifugate it

3- you received a sample was collected on a non-sodium citrate anticoagulant

The corrective actions

1- The sample must be rejected and another sample will be requested.

2- Centrifuge the sample again, if it still lipemic reject this sample and another sample will be requested

3- The sample must be rejected and another sample will be requested.

post-analytical errors

1- Writing a wrong result or wrong name in the report

2- report were sent to incorrect patient

The corrective actions

1- If the report is not delivered to the patient and this error is discovered, the correct result or the correct name must be written, but if the report is delivered to the patient, you must communicate with the patient, apologise to him, and tell him that an error has occurred and replace it with the correct report.

2- Communicate with patient ,apologizing for the error, and providing him with the correct report

Reference range