consisting of members or elements of different kinds; of mixed character: a book of miscellaneous essays on American history. 2. having various qualities, aspects, or subjects: a miscellaneous discussion. Origin of miscellaneous.
exists and is an alternate of . When you store human blood and its components, there's little or no room for error. Red cells and whole blood, for instance, must be maintained strictly within the range of 1.0 to 6.0 degrees Celsius or 33.8 F to 42.8 F, with little or no tolerance for exceptions.
The centrifuge should not be cold and blood specimens should be centrifuged at a temperature 15-24 C. For serum preparation blood should spin for 10 minutes at 1500 g. For plasma, the conditions are 15 minutes at 2000g to 3000g.entrifuging. If samples for glucose measurements are taken, the samples should be centrifuged no later than 20-35 minutes after the sample is drawn. For serum samples, blood should be centrifuged within one hour after blood collection.