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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 168169" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Star</p><p></p><p>I didn't mean to give you the willies about hospital labs in general. Most are anal about how the blood is drawn and the vials handled, and they have to be. Certain tests require you to do certain things. All blood is drawn for different tests in different vials. Depending on the test, a vial will contain ingredients that make the test work properly. These vials have to be inverted a certain number of times in order to mix the blood and the ingredients properly for the test to come out accurate.</p><p></p><p>I'm having trouble buying the results of Travis' blood tests because the last to times they attempted to finger stick him for the cbc. Standard procedure. Blood goes into a capillary tube and into the machine. The problem was that each phlebotomist doing the finger sticks is damn good. (I know them) Travis is the 1st person I've ever seen either of them not be able to get a finger stick on. And I worked with them a whole month. Why? Because his blood clotted almost immediately. And the next draw had to be with the needle and vial.</p><p></p><p>Yet his platelet count came back " high-normal". (platelets are a big factor in blood clotting) Now that just doesn't make sense.</p><p></p><p>Other labs have their problems. Ours just happens to be really bad this way. The state is trying hard to regulate it by requiring certification and schooling. But those that have been doing it forever without schooling were grandfathered in. Many (not all) of those people are the problem. They haven't got a clue as to the <strong>whys</strong> for the procedures and think it's no big deal.</p><p></p><p>And ours is a rural small hospital. Another strike against it. easy child says she has caught the hospital labs where she works several times with obvious mistakes and had to make them re-take the blood draws and test it again. Very scarey when she works in the ICU.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 168169, member: 84"] Star I didn't mean to give you the willies about hospital labs in general. Most are anal about how the blood is drawn and the vials handled, and they have to be. Certain tests require you to do certain things. All blood is drawn for different tests in different vials. Depending on the test, a vial will contain ingredients that make the test work properly. These vials have to be inverted a certain number of times in order to mix the blood and the ingredients properly for the test to come out accurate. I'm having trouble buying the results of Travis' blood tests because the last to times they attempted to finger stick him for the cbc. Standard procedure. Blood goes into a capillary tube and into the machine. The problem was that each phlebotomist doing the finger sticks is damn good. (I know them) Travis is the 1st person I've ever seen either of them not be able to get a finger stick on. And I worked with them a whole month. Why? Because his blood clotted almost immediately. And the next draw had to be with the needle and vial. Yet his platelet count came back " high-normal". (platelets are a big factor in blood clotting) Now that just doesn't make sense. Other labs have their problems. Ours just happens to be really bad this way. The state is trying hard to regulate it by requiring certification and schooling. But those that have been doing it forever without schooling were grandfathered in. Many (not all) of those people are the problem. They haven't got a clue as to the [B]whys[/B] for the procedures and think it's no big deal. And ours is a rural small hospital. Another strike against it. easy child says she has caught the hospital labs where she works several times with obvious mistakes and had to make them re-take the blood draws and test it again. Very scarey when she works in the ICU. [/QUOTE]
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