Blood bank cuvette cassette and label therefor
First Claim
1. An article of manufacture comprising a thermoplastic container for storing or holding human blood characterized in that the blood contacting surface thereof is provided with a hydrophilic coating comprising a polymer formed of a redox catalyst of sodium metabisulfite and ammonium persulfate and a monomer of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate that has been diluted in neat isopropanol to a solids content of approximately 3/4% to 1% by weight to provide the coating solution, which polymer is non-destructive of red blood cells.
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Abstract
A plurality of cuvettes joined together by breakable links between each cuvette for use in testing blood for its ABO classification and the presence of a typical antibodies, and for crossmatching blood for compatibility, together with label means for indicating the reagents used in each cuvette and the identity of the person whose blood is being tested. The cuvettes may be adapted to accept a closure means which permits the cuvettes to be pre-packaged with reagents required to carry out blood tests. The cuvettes have a hydrophilic polymer coating thereon that is non-destructive of red blood cells.
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7 Claims
- 1. An article of manufacture comprising a thermoplastic container for storing or holding human blood characterized in that the blood contacting surface thereof is provided with a hydrophilic coating comprising a polymer formed of a redox catalyst of sodium metabisulfite and ammonium persulfate and a monomer of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate that has been diluted in neat isopropanol to a solids content of approximately 3/4% to 1% by weight to provide the coating solution, which polymer is non-destructive of red blood cells.
- 3. An article of manufacture comprising a plurality of thermoplastic elongated cylindrical test-tube like cuvette means integrally formed into a linear group of individual cuvette means with adjacent cuvette means connected together by a frangible member, each frangible member being a single element breakable along a line parallel to the longitudinal axis of a cuvette means, wherein each cuvette means is provided adjacent its upper end with a flat surface substantially tangent to the outer surface of said cuvette means and having a width approximately equal to the diameter of the cuvette means, the flat surface of each cuvette means forming a co-planar array of spaced apart flat surfaces adapted to receive a single label bearing blocks of data separated by perforation means such that each perforation means will align with a space between said flat surfaces and each block of data can be secured to the flat surface of an individual cuvette means, and wherein the interior surface of each cuvette means comprises a hydrophilic polymer coating formed of a redox catalyst of sodium metabisulfite and ammonium persulfate and a monomer of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate that has been diluted in neat isopropanol to a solids content of approximately 3/4% to 1% by weight to provide the coating solution, which polymer does not lyse red blood cells nor potentiate false antigen antibody reactions.
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