Collection Method #1: Gravity Flow Method
This method uses gravity flow to collect blood while the umbilical cord is still attached to the placenta. After the cord is clamped is a customary manner, the free end of the cord is allowed to drain into the UmbiliCup until sufficient blood has pooled.
Collection Method #2: Double Clamp Method
Using this method, a 5- to 6-inch section of umbilical cord is double clamped, cut and placed inside the UmbiliCup chamber. The clamp is then released and the blood is allowed to pool in the bottom of the chamber.
After blood collection is completed via one of the methods described above, the lid is placed on the UmbiliCup container. Then, an evacuated storage tube is inserted into the sheath protected needle at the bottom of the UmbiliCup. Blood immediately flows into the evacuated chamber and the UmbiliCup is capped on a flat surface.
UmbiliCup (tm) Cord Blood Collection Device Features:
A patented* collection device to safely and efficiently facilitate cord blood collection
Use for umbilical cord sampling and blood gas collection
Also acts as a transporting device for lab testing
Eliminates the use of an exposed sharp needle, reducing the exposure to blood and decreasing the risk of a needle stick injury
Not made with natural rubber latex
Sold as a case of 24
Packaged sterile
Cost effective
User friendly
***NIOSH recommends that health care facilities use safer medical devices to protect workers from needlestick and other sharps injuries. Since the passage of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act in 2000 and the subsequent revision of the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard, all health care facilities are required to use safer medical practices. Specifically, health care facilities are mandated to "select, evaluate, and implement safety engineered sharps devices."½
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