Phlebotomy is used the most in doctors offices, since it's the basic procedure for drawing blood.. It's used the most for blood tests.
It used to be a medical procedure to drain some blood out of a patient. This was called blood-letting.
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Phlebotomy is just the name of the blood draw procedure. Venipuncture is the name of the actual stick of the needle into the vein. Veni(vein)puncture. Technically, according to Medical Terminology. Phlebotomy= Pleb/o (vein) -tomy (incision/cut into) = Incision of a vein. Venipuncture = Ven/o (vein) -puncture (surgical incision)= Surgical incision of a Vein. They are technically the same thing according to Medical Terminology. Phlebotomy is the field hence the word/title Phlebotomist. Venipuncture is the procedure/act of drawing blood. So basically it depends on how your viewing the words. From a Med Term stand or not.
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A tourniquet may be used to aid in venipuncture to make accessing veins easier, or in preventing life-threatening bleeding.
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Some things that will cause hemolysis when drawing a blood sample: leaving the tourniquet on too long if a syring is used, care must be used not to pull back to quickly or forcefully, this will hemolyze the red blood cells Also, Not allowing alcohol at site to dry (if it enters your tube it can cause hemolysis) Shaking instead of inverting anticoagulant tubes Leaving the tube on the double ended needle when removing needle from patients vein. Using the incorrect needle size for the vein. (A small needle on a big vein and a large needle on a small vein)
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No, a tenaculum does not puncture the cervix during a medical procedure. It is a tool used to grasp and stabilize the cervix for various procedures, but it does not puncture it.
A red-top tube is typically used in phlebotomy for an RPR (Rapid Plasma Reagin) test.
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