It is the process of collecting blood through vein by using incision or puncture method to draw blood for analysis or as part of THERAPEUTIC or DIAGNOSTIC measures under the physician’s request.
Phlebotomy
What does phlebos mean?
Vein
What dies temnien/tomos/tome mean?
To cut
Phlebotomy also called as
Venesection
Vena means
Vein
Sectio means
Cutting
In this age, crude tools were used to cut vessel and drain blood from the body.
Stone Age
Ancient Egyptians also practiced phlebotomy as form of “bloodletting”
1400 BC
In 1400 BC, what did they use to suck blood?
Leeches
What year did Hippocrates believed that a person’s health depends on the balance of the four humors?
460-377 BC
Earth corresponds to
blood and brain
Air corresponds to
phlegm and lungs
Fire corresponds to
black bile and spleen
Water corresponds to
Yellow bile ad gall bladder
cupping
Leaching
Hirudin means
anticoagualant to prevent the blood to clot
for diagnosis and treatment using blood samples
for transfusion, to remove blood from donor, and
for removal of blood for polycythemia or therapeutic purposes
Main Goals of Phlebotomy
What is the two main methods of phlebotomy
Venipuncture and Capillary puncture
Is the method of collection of blood through the vein of arm, back of the hands, or foot using a needle
venipuncture
Blood is collected by puncturing the skin using a lancet
capillary puncture
The ff is the
Traits that form the Professional Image of the Phlebotomists
What are the need credentials of phlebotomist to practice?
Patient-Client Interaction