A healthy volunteer study to investigate trace element contamination of blood samples by stainless steel venepuncture needles

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-107

  Hodnett, Darragh ^a   Wood, David M ^a,b   Raja, Kishor ^c   Dargan, Paul I ^a,b   Shah, Anoop D ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromium; Cobalt; Manganese; Needle; Nickel; Stainless steel

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COBALT; MANGANESE; NICKEL; PLASTIC; STAINLESS STEEL; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANNULA; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFUSION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; STANDARD; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADULT; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CHROMIUM; COBALT; HUMANS; MANGANESE; METALS; NEEDLES; NICKEL; STAINLESS STEEL; TRACE ELEMENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856936363     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2011.654146     Document Type: Article

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