UNDERSTANDING PHLEBOTOMY

▪ Defined as an incision or a puncture into a vein in order to obtain blood

▪ One of the oldest medical procedures, dating back to the early Egyptians and was termed as “bloodletting”.

• Bacteriology

• Phlebotomy

• Hematology

• Clinical Chemistry

He believed that disease was caused by an excess of body fluids, including blood, bile, and phlegm, and that removal of the excess would cause the body to return to or maintain a healthy state, and the first-line treatment before all others

• Socrates

• Hippocrates

• Platos

• Aristotle

3 Techniques for bloodletting:

• suction cup devices with lancets

• application of blood-sucking worms, called “leeches,”

• barber surgery, in which blood from an incision produced by the barber’s razor was collected in a bleeding bowl

• Use of scarrificator

Bloodletting is now called _______ and is used as a treatment for only a small number of blood disorders such as hemochromatosis.

• Therapeutic phlebotomy

• Therapy testing

• Blood testing

• Therapeutical process

Hemochromatosis is a condition caused by the over-absorption of ______ from foods that you consume, leading to an excessive concentration of iron in your blood.

• Glucose

• Fats

• Iron

• Sodium

The use of leeches for medical therapy. The active principle in the salivary secretion of leeches that acts as a potent anticoagulant

• Hirudo Therapy

• Bloodletting

• Phlebotomy

• Worming

Primary role of phlebotomy

• Obtaining knowledge and enhancing skills

• Taking good care of the patients

• The collection of blood samples for laboratory analysis to diagnose and monitor medical conditions

• Assisting physician in medical laboratories

A person trained to obtain blood samples primarily by venipuncture and microtechniques.

• medical technologists

• nurses

• phlebotomists

• doctors

POCT means point-of-care-testing

• False

• True

Traits That Form The Professional Image of the Phlebotomist

• Dependable, cooperative, committed

• Compassionate, courteous, respectful

• Integrity, honesty, competence

• Organized, responsible, flexible

• Boastful,Ignorant,Short-tempered