发明申请
US20190324045A1 MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SERUM SEPARATION AND BLOOD CROSS-MATCHING
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基本信息:
- 专利标题: MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SERUM SEPARATION AND BLOOD CROSS-MATCHING
- 申请号:US16455454 申请日:2019-06-27
- 公开(公告)号:US20190324045A1 公开(公告)日:2019-10-24
- 发明人: Andrew W. Kolb , Carolina L. Elmufdi , C. Frederick Battrell
- 申请人: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
- 主分类号: G01N33/80
- IPC分类号: G01N33/80 ; B01L3/00 ; G01N33/49
摘要:
Microfluidic cartridges or devices for serum separation and blood cross-match analysis are provided. The devices may include a serum separation subcircuit alone or in combination with a solute mixing subcircuit. The serum separation subcircuit promotes on-cartridge clotting of a blood sample and manipulates the flow of the separated serum sample for subsequent cross-match analysis with a second blood sample, for example. The solute mixing subcircuit includes at least two intake channels, one for a whole blood sample from, for example, a blood donor and the other for the separated serum sample from, for example, a transfusion recipient. The solute mixing subcircuit further includes a serpentine mixing channel conjoined to a downstream channel. Under vacuum generated by a conjoined finger pump, the two input streams fill the serpentine mixing and downstream channels due to capillary action, enabling visualization of an agglutination reaction.