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Suitability of a transport box for blood sample shipment over a long period
Giuseppe Lippi1, Gabriel Lima-Oliveira, Sandro Coutino Nazer
1UO Diagnostica Ematochimica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy. ulippi@tin.it
Background:
Safety transport boxes are increasingly used to ship laboratory specimens but there is little information on their capacity to maintain suitable transportation temperatures.
Materials And Methods:
Inner temperature was assessed using a commercially available transport box during an 8-h transportation period in the heat.
Results:
Temperature stability was unsatisfactory during approximately 64% of the transportation time (i.e., from 125 to 450 min).
Conclusions:
Transport boxes might be unsuitable for shipping specimens over long periods.

