Open AccessSafe Reduction of Blood Volume in the Blood Gas Laboratory
Author(s) -
Phillip R Jensen,
Boaz A. Markewitz
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
laboratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1943-7730
pISSN - 0007-5027
DOI - 10.1093/labmed/lmw039
Subject(s) - reduction (mathematics) , blood volume , volume (thermodynamics) , medicine , anesthesia , physics , mathematics , thermodynamics , geometry
Phlebotomy is a significant cause of iatrogenic anemia in the critical care environment. It is estimated that one-third of all transfusions of packed red blood cells in intensive care units (ICU) result from phlebotomy. The aims of this study were to determine if utilizing the 1mL blood gas syringe for an adult population would impact the rate at which specimens were acceptable for testing and result reporting based on lab specimen rejection criteria; and to compare blood utilization between the 2 different syringes.
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