Avoidance to wipe alcohol before venipuncture is not a source of spurious hemolysis

Biochemia Medica

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-205

  Luca Salvagno, Gian ^a   Danese, Elisa ^a   Lima Oliveira, Gabriel ^a,b   Cesare Guidi, Gian ^a   Lippi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c ACADEMIC HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Hemolysis; Practice guideline; Preanalytical variability

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ASPIRATION NEEDLE; BLOOD TUBE; CATHETERS AND TUBES; HEMOLYSIS; INJECTION SITE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; VEIN PUNCTURE; VENOUS BLOOD;

EID: 84878764235     PISSN: 13300962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2013.023     Document Type: Article

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