The effect of drone transport on the stability of biochemical, coagulation and hematological parameters in healthy individuals
| Autor: | Gijs den Besten, Klaas Henk van der Steege, Desirée Perlee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Unmanned Aerial Devices
Clinical Biochemistry Physiology Transportation 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Lactate dehydrogenase Biological variation Humans Medicine Platelet Blood Coagulation medicine.diagnostic_test Platelet Count business.industry Biochemistry (medical) General Medicine chemistry Coagulation 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Healthy individuals Partial Thromboplastin Time Hemoglobin Blood parameters business Partial thromboplastin time |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM). 59:1772-1776 |
| ISSN: | 1437-4331 1434-6621 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/cclm-2021-0513 |
| Popis: | Objectives Transport of blood tubes is mainly by car or pneumatic transport. The transportation of blood tubes by drones is a novel approach for rapid transportation of blood tubes over long distances. However, limited data on the stability of biochemical, coagulation and hematological parameters is available after transport of blood tubes by drone. Methods To investigate the effect of drone transport on the stability of blood parameters, four test flights were performed. Blood was drawn from 20 healthy individuals and 39 of the most frequently measured blood parameters were compared between 4 groups; immediate measurement (control), late measurement, transport by car and transport by drone. Total allowable error (TAE) of the EFLM Biological Variation Database was used to determine the clinical relevance of significant differences. Results The majority of blood parameters were not affected by drone transport. Eight of the measured parameters showed significant differences between all the groups; glucose, phosphate, potassium, chloride, hemoglobin, platelet count, activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and lactate dehydrogenase (LD). A clinically relevant increase for LD after transport and a decrease for glucose values in time and after transport compared with the control group was shown. Conclusions Transportation of blood tubes from healthy individuals by drones has a limited clinically relevant effect. From the 39 investigated blood parameters only LD and glucose showed a clinically relevant effect. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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