BACKGROUND Anaemia is common in critically ill patients, and has a significant negative impact on patients' recovery. Blood conservation strategies have been developed to reduce the incidence of iatrogenic anaemic caused by sampling for diagnostic testing. OBJECTIVES Describe practice and local guidelines in adult, paediatric and neonatal Australian intensive care units (ICUs) regarding blood...

abstract background: premature infants are subjected to many painful procedures during care and treatment. the aim of this study was to assess the effect of music therapy on physiological and behavioral pain responses of premature infants during and after blood sampling. materials and methods: this study was a cross-over clinical trial conducted on 20 infants in a hospital affiliated to tehran ...

To achieve automatic needle puncturing for automatic blood sampling, we studied peak waveforms of the puncture forces developed during penetration of a blood vessel. Computer simulations of controlled needle puncture were performed using data from experiments on puncturing a rabbit's ear vein. Reproducible results of successive puncturing suggested that this simulation could be applied to the c...

BACKGROUND The Danish Neonatal Screening Biobank, containing dried blood spot samples from all newborn in Denmark, is a unique source of data that can be utilized for analyses of genetic and environmental exposures related to schizophrenia and other mental disorders. In previous analyses, we have found that early and late blood sampling, compared to sampling at day 5, was associated with increa...

BACKGROUND Lymphatic filariasis is a neglected tropical disease leading to profound disfiguring causing socio economic burden in the tropics. Current diagnosis strategies available during field surveys and epidemics are based on traditional microscopic detections and a few antigen/antibody assays. We have compared different sampling methodologies and standardized the highly sensitive and reliab...

Sampling from blood has been performed for over 200 years. However clinically useful arterial blood gas sampling became a reality after the development of robust methods for measuring oxygen tension from humans in the 1940s. Thus the development of the Clark electrode and subsequent safe tools for sampling plasma, heralded an era of blood sampling, and analysis from which we have not looked bac...

INTRODUCTION Haemolysis of blood samples is a common problem encountered in the Emergency department (ED). It leads to inaccurate blood results and has cost implications as blood samples very often have to be retaken. The purpose of our study was to determine which factors in blood sampling were associated with higher rates of haemolysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS An observational convenience sam...

Dye dilution technique for measunrng pulmona blood volume is usually done by successive injectiot of the indicator into the pulmonary artery and ti left atrium and sampling in the brachial artery. Pu monary blood volume is measured as the product 4 the pulmonary mean transit time and cardiac ou put. Whether an indicator, which is injected in the pulmonary artery, can be sampled from the le atri...

OBJECTIVE Anemia is common in severely ill patients, and blood sampling plays a relevant causative role. Consequently, blood transfusions are frequent an related to several complications. Trying to reduce the transfusion-related risk, minimizing blood loss is mandatory. Thus, this work aimed to evaluate a closed blood sampling system as a strategy to spare unnecessary blood losses and transfusi...