A Davis’s Notes Book!Here’s the perfect guide to collecting, transporting, and processing quality blood specimens for laboratory testing. You’ll have all of the procedural steps for venipuncture, dermal puncture, and arterial puncture techniques at your fingertips as well as the information you need on safety issues and regulations, specimen requirements and clinical correlation, and pre-examination variables. An emphasis on order-of-draw illustrates its importance in preventing altered test results. And, you’ll even have coverage of special procedures, including blood culture, special specimen handling, POCT, and urine collection.