Would you take blood through a venflon?
One way of saving junior doctors' time and patients' pain is to take blood samples through a venflon immediately after its insertion. This is not, however, universal practise as some believe the results, especially urea and electrolytes, are unreliable. We have surveyed junior doctors in our hospital about this practise and prospectively compared venflon and vein blood samples.
Magill
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Northampton Hospital NHS Trust, UK.
Wazait
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Jones
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Titinchi
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Evans
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D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D009339:Needles; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011446:Prospective Studies