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BLOOD TEST
DENOMINATION UTILITY HABITUAL METHOD PRECAUTIONS PROBLEMS TO SEE TO CONSULT

OTHER NAMES

  • Blood sample,
  • Analytical of blood,
  • Blood extraction,
  • Blood routine.

WHY IS IT REALIZED?

The blood tests are used like routine to help to the illnesses diagnosis or like health control.
By means of the analyses it is possible to detect the presence of many habitual and frequent illnesses as there can be the anemia, the diabetes, infections, but also they can to announce less frequent and more serious others like the leukemia or other types of cancer.

WHICH ARE THE MOST FREQUENT?

The analyses more often used are those of blood, and between them the habitual routine is a study hematológico (hematimetría ó hemogram) with VSG (Speed of Globular Sedimentation), and a study of biochemistry in which there measure themselves the glycemia (sugar in the blood), the uric acid, the urea, the transaminasas, the bilirrubina, electrolytes, etc...

SKILL OF ACHIEVEMENT

To realize this analysis one is necessary a previous preparation, and in general it is recommended to be on an empty stomach from 10-12 previous hours.

It is possible to realize the capture in an appropriate place (consultation, clinic, hospital) but sometimes it is realized in the proper domicile of the patient.

  • To realize the capture it is needed of locating an appropriate vein and, in general, there are used the veins placed in the flexura of the elbow. The person entrusted to take the sample will use sanitary gloves, a needle (with a syringe or pipe of extraction).
  • It will put a tortor (tape of gum - latex) in the arm so that the veins retain more blood and turn out to be more visible and accessible.
  • It will clean the area of the prick with an antiseptic one and by means of a palpación it will locate the appropriate vein and will gain access to her with the needle.
  • They will release the tortor.
  • When the blood flows for the needle, the sanitary one will realize an aspiration (by means of the syringe or by means of the application of a pipe with gap).
  • If several samples are needed for different types of analysis blood will be extracted to him more or less or different gap pipes will be applied.
  • On having finished the capture, it extracts the needle to itself and the area is pressed with a cotton or similar torunda to favor the coagulation and it will indicate him to itself that flexione the arm and the area pressed with a Band-Aid supports for some hours.

SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS

  • To come accompanied is usually advisable.
  • If it has tendency to feel sick, it has to of communicating it previously to the sanitary professional, since it will be better to avoid the sickness or a fall of unforeseeable results, and in these cases the extraction is realized by the knocked down person.
  • If note annoyed or, on having finished the extraction, certain instability does not get up and say it; becoming the "brave one" can produce major problems.
  • If in other occasions they have said to him that it has "bad veins" also debit of being communicated previously.

SECONDARY PROBLEMS

  1. Appearance of a haematoma (bruise or cardinal) in the extraction area. It is due usually to the fact that the vein has not closed well after the later pressure and blood has kept on going out producing this problem. Type Hirudoid can apply an ointment to itself ® or Trombocid ® in the area.

  2. Inflammation of the vein (phlebitis). Sometimes the vein turns out to be shaken, well be for a cause merely physically or why it has become infected. It will have to support the relaxed area a few days and type Hirudoid can apply an ointment to itself ® or Trombocid ® in the area. If the problem persists or appears fever will have to consult it with his doctor.
TO SEE ALSO

  • Hemoglobin
  • Indexes Hematimétricos
  • Thrombocytes
  • Inventory of White Globules
  • Results of a Normal Analysis of Routine
  • Speed of Globular Sedimentation
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    Writing: Medical equipment   Update: June, 2009


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