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What is Anticoagulant used to estimate glucose from a sample sent from PHC is and explain in detail?
Ans. is 'c' i.e. Potassium oxalate + NaF Repeat from Nov 06The standard anticoagulant used for collection of blood sample for glucose estimation is potassium oxalate.Sodium fluoride is used as a glycolytic inhibitor (At room temperature a loss of 1 to 2% of glucose per hour is expected in the collected blood sample as the RBCs in the sample are still alive and extracting glucose for glycolysis. This gives a false low value of blood glucose. Sodium fluoride is added to inhibit glycolysis)