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Drawing Under Special Conditions |
When posed with the challenge of drawing from patients with fragile veins, edema, mastectomies and IV infusions, finding a suitable site requires careful consideration. This article discusses the latest thinking on drawing outside the antecubital area, draws above and below an IV, venipunctures and capillary punctures on mastectomy patients and geriatric considerations. |
1823 words
4 pages |
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See You In Court!
Assessing Your Vulnerability to a Phlebotomy-Related Lawsuit |
This article discusses the most common errors specimen collection personnel and their managers make that bring liability for patient injuries on the facility. Written by an expert witness in phlebotomy-related lawsuits, this article uses actual case studies to illustrate key concepts that must be understood to reduce your facility's vulnerability. Readers score themselves on their potential to inflict a phlebotomy-related injury. |
6300 words
12 pages |
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Phlebotomy's Best-Kept Secret: The Order of Draw |
Filling blood collection tubes in the wrong order has been shown to affect test results, which can have serious and life-threatening consequences to the patient. This article discusses the history, theory and the current CLSI standard on the order in which collection tubes must be filled. |
2470 words
5 pages |
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How Phlebotomists Can Alter Potassium Results |
Those who inadvertently alter potassium results due to specimen collection errors can cause physicians to diagnose, medicate and manage their patients in ways that are life threatening. This article discusses ten of the most common errors collectors commit that alter potassium results and how to avoid them. |
3264 words
7 pages |
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Risks to Phlebotomists:
Allergies, Ergonomics & Needlesticks |
If you are employed in healthcare, latex allergies, accidental needlesticks and back injuries can be minor or catastrophic to your way of life. This lesson discusses the most common work-related injuries those who perform specimen collection procedures are vulnerable to and offers strategies to prevent them. |
3026 words
6 pages |
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When Professionals Aren't: Behaviors that Create Bad Impressions |
In the five minutes or so that it takes to draw blood, the patient’s impression of the quality of work conducted on the specimens is based completely and entirely on his or her impression of the collector. This article discusses unprofessional behavior and the impressions they give to patients. Topics include telephone etiquette, approaching patients, off-color jokes, sexual innuendos, horseplay, immodest attire and more. |
1835 words
4 pages |
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OSHA Update |
The key to safety and compliance is a regular review of the OSHA standards as they pertain to specimen collection, processing and handling. This lesson provides an update of key provisions of the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard as of July, 2004. Topics include glove use, plastic collection tubes and bottles, wearing lab coats and other PPEs during specimen processing and testing, tube holder reuse and more. |
4550 words
12 pages
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Handling Patients with Needle Phobia |
Experts say between 5 and 17 percent of the population are deathly afraid of needles and that there are 23 documented deaths attributable to needle-phobic reactions. This article discusses strategies to calm the fears of needle phobic and minimize the pain and trauma needle phobic patients suffer. |
2370 words
5 pages |
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Pediatric Pointers |
This article discusses some of the most important pointers that those who draw blood specimens from pediatric patients must know and master in order to minimize the trauma of the experience for the child, to obtain specimens that are not affected by preanalytical errors and to protect the child from injury and the collector from accidental exposures. Pointers include proper site selection, prewarming techniques, strategies to calm fears, proper positioning and performing a painless venipuncture. |
2100 words
5 pages |
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Preanalytical Errors that Occur Before Collection |
Those who draw blood specimens can significantly alter the results the laboratory reports leading to patient mismanagement. This lesson discusses those errors that collectors can make before specimen collection that can lead to erroneous results. Topics include: patient identification, time of draw, excessive tourniquet time, effects of diet, chronobiology, posture, etc. |
4650 words
9 pages |
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Preanalytical Errors that Occur During Collection |
This lesson continues the series on preanalytical errors, discussing those errors that collectors can make while withdrawing the specimen that can alter results. Topics include the order of draw, hemolysis, underfilling tubes, etc. |
3650 words
7 pages |
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Preanalytical Errors that Occur After Collection |
This lesson, the final installment in our series on preanalytical errors, discusses those errors that collectors can make during specimen processing and transport that can alter results. Topics include delays in separation, affects of temperature, delays in testing, etc. |
3500 words
6 pages |
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| Preanalytical Trilogy |
A collection of all three above articles in one download. |
1200 words
24 pages |
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Mastering Pediatric Phlebotomy |
This article is excerpted from Chapter 6 of Phlebotomy for Nurses and Nursing Personnel and discussescapillary punctures and pediatric venipunctures. Topics include equipment and site selection for skin punctures, strategies to calm the fears of apprehensive children, and important considerations for neonatal venipunctures. |
4100 words
7 pages |
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What Every Phlebotomist MUST Know! |
Based on the latest CLSI standards, this article discusses critical components that every phlebotomist must know to perform venipunctures safely and successfully. Topics include patient identification, the order of draw, site and vein selection, nerve injuries, labeling specimens, professionalism and much more. |
3500 words
7 pages |
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Difficult Draws |
This article attempts to evaluate the most common reasons venipunctures are unsuccessful. Patient variables discussed that make venipunctures difficult include obesity, rolling veins, collapsing veins and apprehensive patients. Collector variables and appropriate equipment selection are also addressed. |
2900 words
5 pages |
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| If Tubes Could Talk |
If you’ve ever wondered what a conversation with a red-top tube would be like, you’re not alone. We're so curious what tubes would say if they could talk that we sent the editor of our newsletter, Phlebotomy Today, out on an assignment. The result: exclusive interviews with the cast of characters you work with every day. This download reveals the hidden personalities of Red-Top, Blue-Top, Purple-Top, and Green-Top tubes, and offers suggestions on their “care and feeding” in their own words. |
7209 words
17 pages |
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Reducing Pain
During Infant and Pediatric Venipuncture |
Would you like to lessen the pain your younger patients feel when you perform their venipuncture? You're not alone. A great deal has been published that sheds light on pain reduction during venipuncture. This article, the most exhaustive literature review on the subject, summarizes the results of nearly 50 published studies on pain reduction techniques, strategies, and anesthetics. Categories include parental involvement, oral analgesics, aromatherapy, topical anesthetics, iontophoresis, and touch therapy. |
2785 words
6 pages
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| Venipuncture Tutor |
Our Venipuncture Tutor is a highly
detailed, extensively researched and referenced article with
illustrations on the venipuncture procedure. Written and developed by
Dennis J. Ernst MT(ASCP), one of the most highly respected and widely
published authorities on the subject, this document provides the most
current information available to all who perform, supervise and teach
blood collection procedures. We have painstakingly researched every
detail in this document, illustrated the text with over 25 photographs,
and provided information based on the latest Clinical and Laboratory
Standards Institute (CLSI, formerly NCCLS)
venipuncture standard, Procedures for the Collection of Diagnostic Blood
Specimens by Venipuncture (Document H3-A6, revised November 2007).
More information. |
17 pages
28 images |
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All articles are highly researched
and reflect the current Clinical and
Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
(formerly NCCLS)
standards for
specimen collection and OSHA guidelines.
