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Management of refined and personalized newborn blood specimen collection [PDF]

Practical Laboratory Medicine
Iatrogenic blood loss is an important cause of neonatal anemia. In this study, a spreadsheet tool was developed to reduce blood collection, providing a new idea for the prevention of iatrogenic blood loss in newborns.Based on hematocrit, minimum test volume and dead volume, a new tool was to calculate the minimum blood collection volume and the number ...
Hui-Bin Huang, Yu-Bin Lin, Jin-Hua Chen, Min Zhu, Li-Jin Chen, Wang Ye, Lin-Hua Luo, Hui-ming Ye   +7 more
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Clinical application of a fully automated blood collection robot and its assessment of blood collection quality of anticoagulant specimens [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
Background and objectivesTo investigate the application of intelligent puncture blood collection robots in anticoagulated blood specimens, the satisfaction of subjects with the two blood collection methods, and the feasibility of intelligent blood collection devices to replace manual blood collection methods in clinical work.Materials and methodsA ...
Chong Wang, Meixiu Gu, Jie Zhu, Shuo Yang, Wenjia Tang, Zizhong Liu, Baishen Pan, Beili Wang, Wei Guo, Wei Guo, Wei Guo, Wei Guo   +11 more
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1005. COVID-19 At-Home Capillary Blood Specimen Collection Pilot – Gaining Insight into Independent Self- Collection of Blood Specimens and COVID-19 Within the Veteran Population [PDF]

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021
Abstract Background The VA Million Veteran Program (MVP) studies what factors influence Veteran health. Current procedures involve collection of venous blood at MVP enrollment sites. To examine home specimen collection options, MVP performed a pilot study comparing two blood specimen collection ...
Mohammed, Tseli, Brewer, Jessica V, Pyatt, Mary E, Romero Casas, Juan P, Whitbourne, Stacey, Michael Gaziano, J, Edson, Connor W, Holodniy, Mark   +7 more
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Timing of Specimen Collection for Blood Cultures from Febrile Patients with Bacteremia [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2008
ABSTRACT Bloodstream infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Physician orders for blood cultures often specify that blood specimens be collected at or around the time of a temperature elevation, presumably as a means of enhancing the likelihood of detecting significant bacteremia.
Riedel, Stefan, Bourbeau, Paul, Swartz, Brandi, Brecher, Steven, Carroll, Karen C., Stamper, Paul D., Dunne, W. Michael, McCardle, Timothy, Walk, Nathan, Fiebelkorn, Kristin, Sewell, David, Richter, Sandra S., Beekmann, Susan, Doern, Gary V   +13 more
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Use of Filter Paper for the Collection and Analysis of Human Whole Blood Specimens [PDF]

The Journal of Nutrition, 2001
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its partners have been operating the Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program for >20 y. The program helps participating laboratories to evaluate and improve the quality of their newborn-screening testing efforts by providing quality control dried blood spot materials and proficiency-testing ...
J. Richard Alexander, Barbara W. Adam, W. Harry Hannon, Joanne V. Mei   +3 more
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Collection of Blood Specimens by Venipuncture for Plasma-Based Coagulation Assays [PDF]

American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2010
Abstract The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recently abandoned its recommendation for drawing a discard tube when performing a prothrombin time (PT)/international normalized ratio (INR) or an activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT).
Huib L. Vader, Carolien H.F. Menting, Fedde van der Graaf, Maarten T M Raijmakers   +3 more
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Pitfalls in Collecting Blood Specimens for Antibiotic Assay [PDF]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1979
Obtaining blood samples for antibiotic analysis from intravenous lines through which the antibiotic had been administered was critically evaluated. Flushing volumes required to remove contaminating antibiotic varied with the type of antibiotic and with different plastics.
Sayomporn Sirinavin, George H. McCracken, John D. Nelson   +2 more
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When to collect blood specimens: midmorning vs fasting samples [PDF]

Clinical Chemistry, 1998
Abstract This study was carried out to define the consequences of collecting blood specimens during the forenoon instead of using fasting specimens collected early in the morning. Extensive laboratory data were obtained from specimens collected from fasting participants at 0800, after breakfast at 0930, and again at 1100.
Esa Leppänen, Benoit Dugué
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MODIFIED KEIDEL TUBE FOR COLLECTING BLOOD SPECIMENS [PDF]

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1922
Our modification of the ordinary vacuum tube which was devised by Keidel for the collecting of blood specimens, and which has demonstrated its usefulness in the hands of the practicing physician, will undoubtedly receive enthusiastic support from the laboratory technician. From the laboratorian's point of view, the old form of Keidel tube is a nuisance
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Residual Negative Pressure in Vacuum Blood-Collection Tube and Hemolysis in Pediatric Blood Specimens

Laboratory Medicine, 2019
ABSTRACT Objective To determine a method to reduce specimen hemolysis rates in pediatric blood specimens. Methods A total of 290 blood specimens from pediatric patients were classified into the capped group or uncapped group.
Jing Hu, Qiao-Xin Zhang, Tong-Tong Xiao, Mei-Chen Pan, Ying-Mu Cai   +4 more
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