Blood Bottle Order - Clinical Skills - Dr Gill

Blood Bottle Order - Clinical Skills - Dr Gill

When it comes to taking BLOOD, it's not really a case of collecting the red stuff in a bottle and sending it off to the lab. Different bottles are required for different tests. Not only that, but the Blood Bottle Order you use to collect the blood can have an impact. Particularly it can have an impact on those different test results.

It is important to understand the order in which you are drawing blood from a patient in order to prevent problems such as this.

In this video will explain the most commonly used blood bottles and the Blood Bottle Order to fill first, along with explaining the purpose of the blue topped bottle, the lavender tube, the grey blood tube, the red blood tube

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