Patent ID: 9633177
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G16H

Claim:
1. A blood collection tube management system comprising: (1) a storage unit for storing a variety of data items; (2) a plurality of blood collection tubes configured to be used in a vacuum blood collection method, each one of the plurality of blood collection tubes comprising: (3) portable blood-collection-tube information reading means for reading the blood collection tube information; (4) an information recording medium carried by a person who is a blood collection subject and upon which blood collection subject information about the blood collection subject is readably recorded; (5) a portable information-recording-medium reading means for reading the blood collection subject information recorded on the information recording medium; and (6) information management means which, at the time of blood sampling, correlates the blood collection tube information read by the blood-collection-tube information reading means with the blood collection subject information read by the information-recording-medium reading means, and readably stores the correlated information items in the storage unit; whereby which of the plurality of blood collection tubes was used for which blood collection subject is determined, and wherein at least three of the plurality of blood collection tubes having respective uses for biochemical test, blood test and blood glucose test recorded on the respective information recording part thereof as the blood collection tube information are bundled as one set of blood collection tubes.