The capillary tubes are made for neonates. In neonates, capillary blood samples are desirable over other forms of sampling. This is because frequent blood collection from patients with low blood ...

Simple execution of capillary sampling can be done by staff members, avoiding the need for trained phlebotomists, venipunctures and blood drawing needles and tubes. Allegro uses a small ...

Care should be taken not to use excessive pressures that can cause collapse of the vein or hemolysis of the blood sample. Alternatively, microhematocrit capillary tubes can be used for sample ...

The following is a summary of “Relationship between skin microvascular blood flow and capillary refill time in critically ill ...