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Blood testing - ACT+, ACT-LR, PT, APTT

= cuvette A cuvette is a piece of laboratory equipment that is intended to hold samples for spectroscopic analysis. Cuvettes are made from glass, plastic, or optical-grade quartz. Plastic cuvettes have the advantage of being less expensive and disposable and are often used in fast spectroscopic assays. = ACT+ testing - Activated Clotting Time To monitor treatment with heparin or other blood-thinning medications (anticoagulants) when undergoing heart bypass surgery, coronary angioplasty, or dialysis. The activated clotting time (ACT) is commonly used to monitor treatment with high-dose heparin before, during, and shortly after medical procedures that require that blood be prevented from clotting, such as heart bypass surgery, cardiac angioplasty, and dialysis. High doses of heparin are given before, during, and for a short time after, some medical procedures that require extracorporeal life support (ECLS). During these procedures, the patient's blood is filtered and oxygenat

Generate a Unique Identifier and add it to DICOM DataSet - SOPInstanceUID (Unique Identifier)

Unique Identifiers (UIDs) provide the capability to uniquely identify a wide variety of items. They guarantee uniqueness across multiple countries, sites, vendors and equipment. Different classes of objects, instance of objects and information entities can be distinguished from one another across the DICOM universe of discourse irrespective of any semantic context. For example the same UID value cannot be used to identify both a study instance (Study Instance UID) and a series instance (Series Instance UID) within that study or a different study. Implementers also need to be cautioned against building new UID values by derivation (for example by adding a suffix) from a UID assigned by another implementation. Each UID is composed of two parts, an <org root> and a <suffix>: UID = <org root>.<suffix> The <org root> "1.2.840.10008" is reserved for DICOM defined items (such as DICOM Transfer Syntaxes) and shall not be used for privately defined it