Small volume vacuum phlebotomy tubes: a controlled before-and-after study of a patient blood management initiative in an Australian adult intensive care unit.

CONCLUSION: SVTs reduce sampling volume without increasing laboratory error. Follow-on effects include reduced fall in haemoglobin concentration and severe anaemia. These correlations are absent in long admissions. PMID: 31778631 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Critical Care and Resuscitation - Category: Intensive Care Tags: Crit Care Resusc Source Type: research