The Phlebotomy Textbook

✍ Scribed by Susan King Strasinger, Marjorie Schaub Di Lorenzo

• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 551
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Rely on this comprehensive resource to master the techniques you need to safely obtain quality specimens. You’ll understand all the hows and whys that lead to success in this rapidly changing field. Inside, you’ll find the up-to-date coverage of routine procedures and their complications as well specialized procedures, quality and infection control, state-of-the-art equipment, medical terminology, ethical and legal issues, body systems, and related diagnostic laboratory tests. Videos and animations online help you to excel.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedications
Preface
Reviewers
Acknowledgments
Contents in Brief
Contents
List of Procedures
Section One: Phlebotomy and the Health-Care Field
1 Phlebotomy and the Health-Care Delivery System
2 The Clinical Laboratory
3 Safety and Infection Control
Section Two: Body Systems
4 Basic Medical Terminology
5 Basic Anatomy and Physiology
6 The Circulatory System
Section Three: Phlebotomy Techniques
7 Venipuncture Equipment
8 Routine Venipuncture
9 Preexamination Variables and Venipuncture Complications
10 Special Blood Collection
11 Dermal Puncture
12 Arterial Blood Collection
Section Four: Additional Techniques
13 Point-of-Care Testing
14 Additional Duties of the Phlebotomist
Section Five: Quality Phlebotomy
15 Ethical and Legal Issues
16 Quality Management in Phlebotomy
Appendix A: Common Laboratory Tests and the Collection Tube Requirements
Appendix B: Answers to Study Questions
Appendix C: Answers to Clinical Situations
Appendix D: Abbreviations
Appendix E: English-Spanish Phrases for Phlebotomy
Glossary
Index