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Learn About Capitainer® Microsampling Solutions
Capitainer® is the next generation dried blood spot microsampling card based on our proprietary qDBS technology. It empowers healthcare providers, researchers and laboratories across the world to provide accurate and easy to use at-home sampling solutions for their customers and patients.
Meet us at the ASMS conference and learn first hand from our product experts more about our solutions.
American Society for Mass Spectrometry
June 4 – 8, 2023
George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB) | Houston, Texas
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Automatically meters a fixed blood volume
The design eliminates the risk of over- or under-fill
Successful sampling indicator integrated in the device
Sample protected from contamination within the device
Simply apply blood to the inlet
The Next Generation Dried Blood Spot Sampling Cards
Capitainer® accurately collects whole blood from a finger stick. It is developed to be easy to use with guarantied sample quality. Capitainer’s paper based drying pouch allows the sample to dry during transportation. No drying step is required by the user. All aspects of the device are designed to make sampling easy for the user.
Learn more about the qDBS technology inside the next generation dried blood spot sampling cards.
About Dried Blood Spot Sampling
DBS has been used since the 1960s when introduced in newborn screening. However, a major drawback of conventional DBS cards is the lack of volumetric control and the hematocrit (Ht) effect. As a different Ht, due to different blood viscousity, leads to different spot size a standardized subpunch on conventional DBS does still not provide an exact volume. These limitations reduce conventional DBS to qualitative or semiquantitative analysis, while most clinical tests are quantitative.
The microfluidic qDBS technology of the Capitainer®B card provides an exact sample volume to a pre-cut DBS disc. Since the full volume defined spot is used for analysis, the Ht effect is overcome and the microsample can be used for quantitative tests. Methods are published for over 2000 analytes using conventional DBS. Now, these can be developed into quantitative tests with the next generation of DBS cards from Capitainer.