What's the difference between phlebotomist and phlebotomy?
Phlebotomist
Definition:
(n.) One who practiced phlebotomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that the technical skills of phlebotomists and patient satisfaction with phlebotomy are outstanding, but that patient discomfort from the procedure needs to be minimized.
(2) Electric dysesthesias during venipuncture should alert the phlebotomist to possible nerve damage.
(3) Lockett “raised up a little bit a couple of times and the phlebotomist told him to take deep breaths, you know, kind of out loud”, a witness said.
(4) What qualities and skills do a good phlebotomist need?
(5) Patients with serious illnesses who donate their blood for autologous use create anxiety for many phlebotomists.
(6) GPs, advanced and emergency nurse practitioners, phlebotomists, technicians, nursing and managerial teams will all be stepping up and stepping in.
(7) Further comparison of the paired blood culture results from the three months when the incidence was highest revealed a good concordance of results among all other phlebotomists (Kappa = 0.5), while P's results concurred with others less frequently than would be expected even by chance (Kappa less than 0.0).
(8) But Nurx is experimenting with sending a phlebotomist in an Uber to the patient’s home to draw their blood, making the process as quick and easy as possible.
(9) 58% of these health care wokers are nurses, 18% are physicians or medical students, 9% are laboratory workers, and 7% are phlebotomists.
(10) Of the 29,700 ostensibly healthy individuals registered, 80.1% returned postcards containing measurements and assessments they made about the procedure and information recorded by the phlebotomist.
(11) Many complained about doing routine "non-medical" work and thought that their working conditions would be improved by nurses having more responsibility for managing intravenous medication and the employment of phlebotomists.
(12) Phlebotomists' ratings as to whether or not children's distress during the actual procedure extended the time it usually takes to perform the procedure was used as the outcome criterion in a discriminate analysis in determining the degree to which anticipatory ratings would predict actual clinical distress during the medical procedure.
(13) Microbiologists were at greatest risk of infection, with an incidence of almost 1%, followed by generalists and phlebotomists.
(14) Nurses, technicians, receptionists, porters, admin and clerical workers, cleaners, pharmacists, phlebotomists, pathologists, doctors, and others all in their different ways perform essential tasks.
(15) Although the Centers for Disease Control recommends that needles should never be recapped, many phlebotomists routinely recap and change needles before blood culture inoculation.
(16) As of July 31, 1988, 1201 health care workers with blood exposures had been examined, including 751 nurses (63 percent), 164 physicians and medical students (14 percent), 134 laboratory workers (11 percent), and 90 phlebotomists (7 percent).
(17) The same Bacillus species was isolated from nonsterile gloves from the same lot worn by phlebotomists for blood collection in the outpatient clinics during this period, implicating the gloves as the cause of this pseudoepidemic.
(18) Lack of success with the lancet was attributed to inexperienced phlebotomists, not to the lancet's decreased size.
(19) The most common laboratory-acquired infection, hepatitis B, affected a microbiologist, a hematologist, a phlebotomist, a pulmonary blood gas technician, and a blood bank technologist who died from her illness.
(20) After two cases of acute hepatitis B infection occurred in phlebotomists at The Hospital for Sick Children in 1985, a seroprevalence survey of hepatitis B virus markers was undertaken.
Phlebotomy
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is of clinical importance as IHC can be successfully treated by phlebotomy.
(2) PPMM occurred in about the same incidence in the patients treated with myelosuppressive therapy as by phlebotomy alone, the spent phase occurring in 16 patients treated by phlebotomy alone, 11 with chlorambucil, and 12 with 32P.
(3) The ferritin content of liver and spleen in normal and iron-loaded rats decreased during repeated phlebotomy.
(4) A marked reduction in the area covered by adventitial cells was recorded coinciding with the early reticulocyte response to phlebotomy.
(5) Chloroquine may be used as a provocative diagnostic test for patients with a questionably latent PCT but this is safe if phlebotomy is performed beforehand.
(6) One group received recombinant human erythropoietin to increase hematocrit, and another group was subjected to phlebotomy and fed a low-iron diet to induce anemia.
(7) Twenty-five patients with overt clinical and biochemical findings of porphyria cutanea tarda took part in a study comparing intensive phlebotomy with slow subcutaneous desferrioxamine treatment.
(8) Erythrocyte and plasma ferritin was followed in 13 patients with iron overload undergoing phlebotomies for at least 6 months in comparison with untreated patients and normal males.
(9) A multicompartmental model of erythrokinetics and bilirubin production has been developed to predict the consequences of chronic phlebotomy on daily bilirubin turnover.
(10) Hb values gradually increased, but did not completely recover to pre-phlebotomy levels by day 56.
(11) The two groups had similar mean predonation values of internal carotid flow velocity (ICFV): blood donation was followed in both groups by a slight, transient decrease of ICFV at the end of phlebotomy, due to donation-induced hypovolemia, and then by an increase of ICFV lasting 7 to 10 days.
(12) We conclude that the technical skills of phlebotomists and patient satisfaction with phlebotomy are outstanding, but that patient discomfort from the procedure needs to be minimized.
(13) It is emphasized that serum ferritin measurements are useful for monitoring of intensive phlebotomy therapy, and in particular to indicate the end of therapy before anemia develops.
(14) He was already diagnosed as having erythrocytosis secondary to pulmonary fibrosis 4 years previously and the values of his hematocrit (Ht) were maintained between 44.5 and 62.9% by repeated phlebotomy.
(15) Serum levels of transferrin receptor and erythropoietin were determined in 2 patients with hereditary hemochromatosis undergoing phlebotomy therapy.
(16) They received phlebotomies, plasmapheresis, and transfusions of erythrocytes and platelets.
(17) The operation was performed 2 weeks after the last phlebotomy.
(18) For in vitro studies, a triplet study design was used, in which WBC-reduced PCs were matched to standard PCs and to WBC-enriched PCs obtained from the same donor at the same phlebotomy.
(19) Although there was an increase in the level of serum immunoreactive erythropoietin with successive phlebotomies, the increase was not substantially out of the normal range.
(20) Two effective and reliable methods exist - repeated phlebotomy therapy and prolonged low-dose chloroquine.