Process for managing urgent samples in an automation installation

A process for prioritizing urgent test tubes in a test tubes ( 50 ) transport installation is disclosed, the test tubes ( 50 ) being loaded on transport devices ( 4 ) of single test tubes ( 50 ) in an automated analysis laboratory, comprising the loading of test tubes ( 50 ) classified as urgent and non urgent on transport devices ( 4 ) for transporting single test tubes ( 50 ), moving said loaded transport devices ( 4 ) on a conveyor belt until they interact with an identification device ( 5 ) identifying the test tube upstream of processing modules ( 6 ) of the test tubes ( 50 ), removal of the test tubes ( 50 ) that are recognized to be non-urgent from the respective transport device ( 4 ) and discharging of the non-urgent test tubes ( 50 ) onto a wait bench ( 10 ) for non-urgent test tubes ( 50 ), moving transport devices ( 4 ) for transporting single urgent test tubes ( 50 ) towards the processing modules ( 6 ), the recall by a control unit ( 7 ) of the non-urgent test tubes ( 50 ) at the moment in which the availability of the processing modules ( 6 ) for non-urgent the test tubes ( 50 ) occurs and the consequent loading of the non-urgent test tubes ( 50 ) on the bench ( 10 ) onto transport devices ( 4 ) of the installation, the bench ( 10 ) providing means for locating the non-urgent waiting test tubes ( 50 ).