Does fist pumping/clenching during venipuncture activate blood coagulation?

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 357-358

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Lima Oliveira, Gabriel ^a   Guidi, Gian Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; RECOMBINANT THROMBOPLASTIN;

AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD PUMP; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; FOREARM; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LETTER; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOELASTOGRAPH; TOURNIQUET; VEIN PUNCTURE; ADULT; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; PROCEDURES; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

ADULT; BLOOD COAGULATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHLEBOTOMY; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

EID: 84962728568     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: 14735733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBC.0000000000000429     Document Type: Letter

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