The Medical Field and Phlebotomy

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The Medical Field and Phlebotomy

• Loren Smith
• PCHS

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What is Phlebotomy?

• Phlebotomy is the practice of collecting or
  injecting blood
• Phlebotomy and Venesection are the same thing
• Phlebotomists are the people collecting or
  injecting the blood.

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What Else Do They Do?

• Collect blood and plasma
• Explain and record patients records
• Check blood pressure, pulse, and respiration rate
• They have to be patient and a people person

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Where?

• Phlebotomists work in many places.
• Hospitals
• Nursing homes
• Doctors offices
• Blood Drives

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Special.

• Arterial blood samples from the wrists
• Butterfly needles for infants or small veins
• Top of scalp
• Heel
• Finger stick
• Top of hand sticks

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Therapeutic Phlebotomy

• The process when you have to have a certain
  amount of blood drawn to remove excess iron
• Performed to treat Polycethemia Vera

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Veins

• Median Cubital Vein
• Superficial palmer venous arch
• Basilic

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Materials

• Needles
• Syringe
• Evacuated tubes
• Latex gloves

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Procedure

• Check patients pulse and blood pressure
• Check patients records and explain to them what I
  will be doing
• Sterilize injection site and needle
• Tie syringe on bicep
• Patient makes a fist
• Insert needle and release band
• Draw blood

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Before and After Effects

• Discontinue medications
• Avoid food
• Small bruise and mild soreness

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Education Needed

• Certificate(optional)
• GED
• Anatomy
• Psychology of the circulatory system

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Salary

• Phlebotomist(20-25,000)
• Nurse aid(15-20,000)
• Lab tech(28-37,000)
• X-ray tech(40-45,000)
• Ultra sound tech(46-54,000)

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Safety

• Safety is the number one priority when you are
  dealing with needles and blood,so you always need
  to take extra precautions to keep yourself and
  others as safe as possible!
• Better to be Safe than Sorry!

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Hazards

• Warn you about were hazardous materials or
  locations
• In most places are regulated by law
• Needles and blood is called Radiation Hazard
  Signs
• Different colors, shapes, and sizes

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Blood Basics

• Flows through arteries and veins
• Carries oxygen from the lungs and glucose from
  the liver to every cell in organs and tissues
• Exchanges oxygen for carbon dioxide
• Adults have 4 liters(61/2 pints)
• 3 blood cells red, white, and platelets

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Red Blood Cells

• Round pillow with dimple on each side
• Flexible
• Sickle Cell Anemia
• Bring hemoglobin so they can remove carbon
  dioxide they produce during metabolism

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White Blood Cells

• 5 kinds
• 1st line of defense against bacterial infection

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Plasma

• Liquid part of blood
• Transports
• 90 water

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Blood Types

• Covered with proteins and glycoproteins
• Specific sugars determine type

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History of the Red Cross

• 1881
• Clara Barton
• Supplies and treatment
• Training

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Present Day Transfusions

• Questions
• Tie tourniquetfist
• Sterilize
• Tape needle
• Connect to bag
• Labeled and coded
• 30 min.- 10 min.

• Clamp tube
• Remove needle
• Bandage
• Lightheaded
• Replace plasma in a day

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Facts

• Every 2 seconds a person needs blood.

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Early Transfusions

• 1666
• Richard Lower
• Animals
• Jean-Babtise Denis

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Cupping

• Cupping is the process in which a glass bulb is
  heated and then placed on the patients skin.
  While it cools it forms a blister of blood. The
  doctor would then remove the cup and use a box
  to release the pooled blood.

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CPR- CBP

• CALL- call 911
• BLOW- tilt head,lift chin, check breathing,give 2
  breaths
• PUMP- position hands in center of chest, firmly
  push down 2 inches on the chest 30 times

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Heimlich Maneuver

• The Heimlich maneuver is a series of
  under-the-diaphragm abdominal thrusts. This is to
  dislodge a foreign object in the mouth or throat,
  so that the air ways are not blocked.
• If you are alone then you can perform this on
  yourself by using the back of a chair.

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Technology

• X-ray machine
• Ultra sound
• CAT scanner
• Centrifuge machine

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My learning styles
 
   
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Bibliographies

• www.york.ac.uk.com
• www.phlebotomytech.com
• www.wikipedia.org
• www.bd.com
• www.dictionary/references.com
• www.washington.edu.com
• www.americanheart.org
• www.search.live.com
• www.medicalcareers.org
• www.raems.com
• Circulating Life-Cherie Winner

• www.healthline.com
• www.images.google.com
• www.phlebotomy.com
• www.alliedhealthschools.com
• www.plcodenver.com
• www.phlebotomy.org
• www.purchon.org
• www.unimidwest.com
• www.secretscotland.com
• Phlebotomy Handbook-
• Diana Garza