Drawing smaller amounts of blood from patients in the intensive care unit could save tens of thousands of units of blood each year, researchers in Canada found. Photo AhmadArdity/Pixabay Drawing ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Switching to routine use of small-volume blood draws in adult intensive care units (ICUs) for most laboratory testing appeared to cut blood transfusions without compromising those ...
Using small-volume rather than standard-volume collection tubes to draw blood for laboratory testing may reduce the incidence of anemia and the need for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in intensive ...