The importance of capillary blood sampling | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Capillary blood (fingerstick) sampling is increasingly being used worldwide due to the growing availability of point-of-care (POC) testing.

With anemia affecting about 25% of the global population and much higher prevalence in the developing countries, hemoglobin is the most frequently performed test in POC hematology, also being used routinely by blood collection services to ensure safe donations.

At the same time, hemoglobin values are among the parameters most prone to being affected by pre-analytical errors so, in order to avoid generating variant and misleading hemoglobin results, health care personnel drawing blood must adhere to strict and standardized blood sampling techniques to ensure accurate and consistent POCT results that are comparable to l...