Heparin Syringe 1mL - Sterile
August 20, 2009 5:34 PM Subscribe
I am looking for a bulk source of pre-filled heparin (ball) 1mL syringes, sterile with CE mark. For use with sample transfer. BD does not offer this, and my Google-fu is weak in this context. Thanks!
If you're a "civilian" it's not going to easy. Have you asked various drug company/immunology/health science representatives?
1mL "ball" heparinized syringes is not a standard thing. Heparinized tubes and glassware is pretty standard, but syringes that are heparinized sounds exotic.
Is it possible to use regular syringes and needles, then transfer them into heparinized glass tubes (or tubes treated with other treatments)? Blood takes a few minutes to congeal outside of the vein; I used to phlebotomize 50, 100 mLs into a regular syringe with a butterfly needle then transfer that into 50mL Falcon tubes with a drop of heparin.
Or are you asking because someone stupid is asking you to do something stupid (and impossible) because they're fucking stupid?
It's also not difficult or expensive or hard to heparinize random plasticware. You place blood in these treated containers, they're not going to congeal.
posted by porpoise at 11:06 PM on August 20, 2009
1mL "ball" heparinized syringes is not a standard thing. Heparinized tubes and glassware is pretty standard, but syringes that are heparinized sounds exotic.
Is it possible to use regular syringes and needles, then transfer them into heparinized glass tubes (or tubes treated with other treatments)? Blood takes a few minutes to congeal outside of the vein; I used to phlebotomize 50, 100 mLs into a regular syringe with a butterfly needle then transfer that into 50mL Falcon tubes with a drop of heparin.
Or are you asking because someone stupid is asking you to do something stupid (and impossible) because they're fucking stupid?
It's also not difficult or expensive or hard to heparinize random plasticware. You place blood in these treated containers, they're not going to congeal.
posted by porpoise at 11:06 PM on August 20, 2009
Ok, sorry - if you're being asked to do this by someone else, it's likely that they don't know what they're doing and just recited something that they read, which may or may not be practically correct. It can be difficult to communicate the impossibility of their desires especially if you're not an MD and they are and they think that they're real scientists. I'm willing to communicate with them.
posted by porpoise at 11:13 PM on August 20, 2009
posted by porpoise at 11:13 PM on August 20, 2009
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posted by greatgefilte at 6:09 PM on August 20, 2009