ERYTHROCYTE MORPHOLOGY ON PERIPHERAL BLOOD SMEAR USING AN EDTA ANTICOAGULANT TUBE AT 0, 3, 5, AND 7 HOURS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE AT UPTD LABKESDA OF GORONTALO PROVINCE

Abstract

Peripheral Blood Smear (SADT) is one of the laboratory tests used to see blood morphology one of them is erythrocyte blood morphology, then microscopically looked at the shape, size, color, and blood cell disorders with blood samples using the EDTA anticoagulant tube. EDTA blood sample (Etilen Diamine Tetra Asetat) stored at room temperature for too long can cause cell morphological abnormalities namely krenase cell. This study aims to determine the description erythrocyte morphology on peripheral blood smear using an EDTA anticoagulant tube based on variations in inspection time.

This type of study is descriptive with an experimental approach. The sampling technique is purposive Sampling with a sample of 16 respondents and checked at 0, 3, 5, and 7 hours then the results were analyzed using SPSS with the cross-tabulation test. The results showed that there was a change in the shape of erythrocytes in the form of krenase cells at 0 hours which had good criteria, at 3 hours 37.5% good, medium category 62.5%, at 5 hours it was good category 6.2%, medium category 37.5%, bad category 56.2%, at 7 hours 37.5% were categorized as bad, 62.5% was very bad. So it can be concluded that there is a change in the erythrocytes morphology that form cell krenase, the formation of krenase cells occurs as the delay in the examination time is increased as evidenced by the cross-tabulation test.