Neonatal heel prick
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neonatal-heel-prick-185-11029002
title:
Neonatal heel prick
text:
The neonatal heel prick is a blood collection procedure done on newborns. It consists of making a pinprick puncture in one heel of the newborn to collect their blood. This technique is used frequently as the main way to collect blood from neonates. Other techniques include venous or arterial needle sticks, cord blood sampling, or umbilical line collection. This technique is often utilized for the Guthrie test, where it is used to soak the blood into pre-printed collection cards known as Guthrie
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encyclopedia
description:
Blood collection procedure for newborns
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_heel_prick
date created:
2002-07-29T23:14:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T18:30:32Z
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