WHO guidelines on drawing blood : best practices in phlebotomy

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• Corporate Authors:
  Safe Injection Global Network. ; World Health Organization. ; National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Global AIDS Program.
• Description:
  Phlebotomy uses large, hollow needles to remove blood specimens for lab testing or blood donation. Each step in the process carries risks - both for patients and health workers. Patients may be bruised. Health workers may receive needle-stick injuries. Both can become infected with bloodborne organisms such as hepatitis B, HIV, syphilis or malaria. Moreover, each step affects the quality of the specimen and the diagnosis. A contaminated specimen will produce a misdiagnosis. Clerical errors can prove fatal. The new WHO guidelines provide recommended steps for safe phlebotomy and reiterate accepted principles for drawing, collecting blood and transporting blood to laboratories/blood banks.
  
  Development of this publication was supported by Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-CI09-903 from: the Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, United States of America (USA); the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Global AIDS Program (GAP).
  
  ISBN 978 92 4 159922 1
  
  
• Subjects:
  Bloodletting/standards Needlestick Injuries/prevention & Control Phlebotomy/standards
• Document Type:
  Book
• Funding:
  CDC-RFA-CI09-903
• Genre:
  Guideline
• Pages in Document:
  xv, 109 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:556e2ce4f33cf1aaa5bd392aa7350c1fabced158cbac461d6d4631488ba8e940
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/41566/cdc_41566_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.64 MB ]