title: Capillary blood collection in haematology.
abstract: A capillary blood collection technique which facilitates the estimation of routine haematological parameters, including platelet count and sedimentation rate, is described. The technique requires 0.5 ml of blood, allows closer reproducibility than pipette collection methods, is suitable for monitoring blood counts in patients receiving cytotoxic agents, and can be integrated with semi-and fully-automated production lines.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001322:Autoanalysis; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D001792:Blood Platelets; D001793:Blood Preservation; D001799:Blood Sedimentation; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000379:methods*; D002196:Capillaries; D002648:Child; D004209:Disposable Equipment; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply; D005898:Glass; D006801:Humans; D010969:Plastics; D013048:Specimen Handling; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors; D014680:Veins
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics