Sampling and analysis techniques used in a blood lead survey of 1241 children in Port Pirie, South Australia.
Methods are described for taking finger-prick blood samples and for analyzing these samples for lead. Quality-control techniques and procedures for the validation of all results are described. Results of a survey of 1241 children are given and results for 149 venous samples are compared with results for the corresponding finger-prick samples. This finger-prick sampling method evidently is suitable for use in screening large numbers of children.
D001315:Australia; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D002196:Capillaries; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead / Q000097:blood; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000097:blood* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008403:Mass Screening; D008832:Microchemistry; D011786:Quality Control; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic; D014680:Veins
D007854:Lead