Modified laser viscometer technique to measure blood viscosity

ABSTRACT

To eliminate human factor errors in measuring the blood viscosity laser viscometer was designed and constructed. Blood viscosity of ten human blood samples were measured using this viscometer. Hematological parameters of these samples [RBC's countt, mean cell volume [MCV] hematocrit [HCT] mean corpuscle haemoglobin [MCH] mean corpuscle hemoglobin concentration [MCHC] hemoglobin[HGB] red cell distribution width [RDW] and serum cholesterol were measured and the relation between the viscosity of whole blood and these parameters were studied. The results obtained show a correlation between blood viscosity and eash of RBC's count [r= 0.78] HCT [r = 0.51] and RDW [r = 0.537] while the other blood parameters are not correlated