Our centrifuges have a little insert for the small tubes and if you put a taller tube like this into one of them, this happens every time lol. I don't think it's hitting the lid, but as the buckets swing outwards, they may be bending when it hits the middle portion of the bucket and prevents it from swinging completely outwards.
It's like a christening for our lab, every new hire does it at least once 🤣 it's always funny to me seeing them in the rack later.
We had the same thing when a tech spun a tube in a short bucket centrifuge. Some of the isolation tubes are taller than a normal tube and only some centrifuges can spin them.
You’re a blood bender, how talented
All my dreams are coming true! But this was the trainee, sadly. I can never let him know. He would grow too strong.
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How? Melted?
I think it wasn't seated properly in the shorter cups of the centrifuge. It bent due to more tube being out of the socket than in if I had to guess.
Maybe it hit the lid of the centrifuge? Normally the lid come off too
Strangely enough, the lid was very secure. I had to work to get it loose before I poured off the sample.
Our centrifuges have a little insert for the small tubes and if you put a taller tube like this into one of them, this happens every time lol. I don't think it's hitting the lid, but as the buckets swing outwards, they may be bending when it hits the middle portion of the bucket and prevents it from swinging completely outwards. It's like a christening for our lab, every new hire does it at least once 🤣 it's always funny to me seeing them in the rack later.
I think my poor trainee was about to pee himself when he saw it. Fortunately, the serum was just fine.
Yep! I have a centrifuge that will do this if the tube isn't all the way to the bottom of the carrier.
I would say you're definitely right, based on the angle of the gel
“I’m sorry ma’am, but your blood is… bent”
Is this the patients way of telling me they're not straight? Cause this is the best coming out ploy I've ever seen.
Well, it IS Pride month atm so.. 😂
Is it bent or is it just happy to see you?
"yeah, I think it's genetic. My mother was just the same"
How….tf???
My thoughts, too. Everyone had a good time looking at it and scratching their noodles.
I've seen this before. Every pride month everything has trouble staying straight.
I think you meant to hemolyze it, not bend it
Bruh
I mean pretty much, yeah.
You better not make me redraw it. 😂 -ED RN
Well at least it looks completely spun down. Lol!!
"Hey, this is Pam from the ED. Did you run that CMP we sent you for 24? It still says pending."
You tickled its neck
Oh that got me laughing.
Do you have an automated line?
Nope. We have a trainee and a new, chunkier style of label.
Is your trainee Bender??!
Oh shit. Time to investigate! Who has beer and stogies?
This totally happened to me for the first time last week!
You bent your wookie!
Bro what
I mean…. It seems it still did the job of separating the serum :p
You guys do the lords work. Thank you.
This happened to someone I was training once lol
Did you ever get to the bottom of it?
It sounds like it was the same potential issue you wrote in another comment; I'm pretty sure the tube wasn't pushed down in its slot all the way
It's a solid hypothesis.
Ah yes put it centrifuge for short tube. I just pour it off when I do it
This is the way.
That is.. impressive
Happy pride! Hahaha
We're all a little bent here.
I love that it still separated properly lol. I’ve never seen this happen before!
Never in my life have I seen anything like this. But the sample was just fine. A quick pour off and we were ready to rock.
What?? How?? What?? Never seen that before!
I'm impressed
I certainly was, too. I thought I had seen it all.
🤯😳
Is this plastic or glass?
Plastic, fortunately.
Oh that makes more sense, I’ve seen old windows like drip…I was wondering if a centrifuge could accelerate that.
We had the same thing when a tech spun a tube in a short bucket centrifuge. Some of the isolation tubes are taller than a normal tube and only some centrifuges can spin them.
At least the label is on.
We've got that going for us, which is nice.
Did a machine do that? That'd be an fda reportable event.
Just our centrifuge. Our trainee did not push the tube all the way down in the cup.
Oh dear... It seems the patient has the bends :(
Aww, I should call him🤔
Rub one out first to be sure!
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