Quick Guide to Venipuncture, Revised Printing Review
Quick Guide to Venipuncture, Revised Printing Feature
The Quick Guide to Venipuncture assists phlebotomists, patient care technicians, nurses, physicians, medical laboratory scientists, respiratory therapists, students, residents, fellows and all health care practitioners with blood specimen collection responsibilities. The Guide describes standard venipuncture equipment and addresses patient identification and management, order of specimen tube draw, and good venipuncture techniques. The Guide provides criteria that ensure specimen suitability including complete draws, specimen mixing, hemolysis avoidance, and proper transport and storage. The Guide emphasizes safety for the patient and for the phlebotomist, including prevention of needlestick injury and minimizing risk of infection. The Guide describes proper blood collection by vascular access device, and provides detailed capillary puncture and arterial puncture instructions.
The authors are faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Pathology Division of Laboratory Medicine. The Guide arose from their experiences in teaching medical laboratory science students, residents, fellows, nurses, and physicians at the UAB Hospital. The Quick Guide to Venipuncture joins a series that includes Quick Guide to Coagulation Testing, Quick Guide to Hematology Testing, Quick Guide to Transfusion Medicine, and Quick Guide to Clinical Chemistry.
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