One Poke or Two: Can Intravenous Catheters Provide an Acceptable Blood Sample? A Data Set Presentation, Review of Previous Data Sets, and Discussion

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 575-578

  Dietrich, Henry ^a  

^a KALISPELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriate clinical practice; Blood draw; Color chart comparison; Hemolysis, Spectrophotometric measurement; IV

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLING; CATHETERIZATION; EMERGENCY NURSING; HEMOLYSIS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HUMAN; NURSING; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CATHETERIZATION; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84923639788     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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