CAPILLARY PUNCTURE

Refers to the sampling of blood from a puncture on the finger, ear, or earlobe

A technique of choice to obtain a blood specimen for newborn, pediatric patient, severely burned, extremely obese, and geriatric patient.

Capillary blood is a mixture of?

• Arterial blood, venous blood, capillary blood, interstitial and intracellular fluids

• Arterial blood, venous blood, interstitial and intracellular fluids

• Venous blood, capillary blood, interstitial and intracellular fluids

• Arterial blood, venous blood, and capillary blood

Volume or capacity of microcollection containers?

What will happen if we overfill a microcollection container?

If the amount of anticoagulant is greater than blood what will happen to our sample/specimen?

Length of capillary tube?

Color of heparinized microhematocrit tube?

Color of non-heparinized microhematocrit tube?

After centrifugation, what is the first layer of our specimen?

(HEPARINIZED TUBE)