When beginning your Phlebotomy training, it is crucial to familiarize yourself with the wide range of equipment you may use on a day-to-day basis. At a minimum, the equipment required when drawing blood includes gloves, alcohol or iodine to cleanse the area, a tourniquet, tubes, a tube holder, needles, tape, and gauze.
What is a phlebotomy kit?
Description: Phlebotomy Training kit is the perfect kit to practice drawing blood in the comfort of your own home. This kit includes all materials needed to practice the art of venipuncture without having to buy in bulk from large manufacturers.
What are the basics of phlebotomy?
Outline
Review the order.Gather the supply tray/cart.Approach, identify, and prepare the patient.Hand hygiene.Apply the tourniquet, ask the patient to make a fist, and assess the antecubital space.Select a vein, release the tourniquet, and ask the patient to relax his or her fist.Cleanse the site.
How do needles draw blood?
The sample tube is under vacuum. Once the needle is in the vein, the tube is pressed on to the needle and the blood is drawn automatically into the sample tube by vacuum until the required amount is collected.
What is a two way needle?
Multiple draw needles are used with vacuum collection tubes. They allow the collection of blood into multiple vacuum collection tubes during a single venipuncture. They have a retractable sheath over the portion of the needle that penetrates the blood tube.
What is blood drawing called?
A procedure in which a needle is used to take blood from a vein, usually for laboratory testing. A blood draw may also be done to remove extra red blood cells from the blood, to treat certain blood disorders. Also called phlebotomy and venipuncture.
What is the order of draw?
The “Order of Draw” is designed to eliminate the possibility of cross contamination that may result in erroneous results. It is based on CLSI Procedures for Collection of Diagnostic Blood Specimens by Venipuncture; Approved Standard Sixth Edition, October 2007.
What are the 3 main veins to draw blood?
3.05.
The most site for venipuncture is the antecubital fossa located in the anterior elbow at the fold. This area houses three veins: the cephalic, median cubital, and basilic veins (Figure 1).
How do you puncture a vein?
Prep the venipuncture site by cleansing the area with an alcohol prep pad for 30 seconds and allow to air dry for 30 seconds. Grab the patient’s lower arm (below site of puncture) firmly to draw the skin taut and anchor the vein from rolling. Insert the needle at a 15 to 30-degree angle into the vessel.
What tube is used for CBC?
The following tests may be drawn in the same LAVENDER (PURPLE) top tube: CBC, SED RATE (ESR), RETICULOCYTE Draw an extra LAVENDER for each (GLYCOHEMOGLOBIN and BNP). 9. GLUCOSE is always drawn in a GRAY top tube. No additional test may be drawn with this tube.
Who phlebotomy best practices?
Best practices in phlebotomy involve the following factors:
planning ahead;using an appropriate location;quality control;standards for quality care for patients and health workers, including. – availability of appropriate supplies and protective equipment; – quality of laboratory sampling.
What is the most common complication of phlebotomy?
Hematoma: The most common complication of phlebotomy procedure.
