Heart Probe—A Method for Obtaining Blood Samples from Chickens

Obtaining blood samples from peripheral intravenous catheters: best practice?

Occasionally, nurses perform phlebotomy via intravenous catheters, especially to improve efficiency in short-stay or procedural units. The intent of this practice is to reduce the number of venipunctures and thus increase patients’ comfort. However, obtaining laboratory specimens from peripheral intravenous catheters may hemolyze the specimens, and can even dislodge catheters and necessitate re...

A method for obtaining concentrates of eosinophils from blood.

Chemical Method of Obtaining Dry Blood Proteins for Transfusion Purposes

as the Desivac, Adetvac and others, for this purpose. These machines are not only costly but also not easy to obtain in the present emergency. This naturally raises the question as to whether the proteins of the serum and plasma cannot be obtained in a dry form by the use of cheaper chemical methods. As long ago as 1910, Hardy and Gardiner made the observation that, by the addition of alcohol o...

Obtaining Coagulation Blood Samples From Central Venous Access Devices: A Review of the Literature.

BACKGROUND Central venous access devices are used for chemotherapy and other medication administration, blood product administration, parenteral nutrition, and for obtaining blood samples in patients where the vasculature is difficult to access. Patients may need additional blood samples prior to invasive procedures and when clinical situations arise during cancer care. In addition, monitoring ...

A Method for Obtaining

An encryption method is presented with the novel property that publicly revealing an encryption key does not thereby reveal the corresponding decryption key. This has two important consequences: 1. Couriers or other secure means are not needed to transmit keys, since a message can be enciphered using an encryption key publicly revealed by the intended recipient. Only he can decipher the message...