While many other areas in the practice of medicine have been augmented by increasingly sophisticated technology, phlebotomy – the practice of drawing blood for laboratory analysis – has remained ...

Drawing blood should be a routine procedure. Unfortunately complications can arise either in the elderly, who may have a compromised vasculature, or in children who are literally scared out of their ...

Phlebotomy refers to drawing blood from a person’s vein with a needle. Lab tests on blood samples are important as they measure different blood components and provide information that can lead to a ...