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Skin Puncture and Blood Collection for Infants

  • 1990
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Please note that this video contains footage of blood being drawn from adults and infants and a still image of the feet of a deceased infant.

This training video produced by the Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio teaches phlebotomists how to draw blood via skin puncture of the heels of newborns and infants, a safer and easier method than using veins and arteries. Daniel Mann, Administrative Director of Laboratory Services at the Children's Hospital, narrates the video, and Dr. Charles Reiner explains why the heel is the best puncture point for newborns and infants. A group of hospital laboratory staff (Carlotta Thompson, Debbie Messer-Wright, Teresa Cooper, and Karis Glassco) demonstrate proper techniques on an adult's finger. The last 20 minutes of the video are silent footage of a blood draw on an infant.

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Provenance

Donated to the Science History Institute by Dr. Samuel Mites in 2001.
Place of creation
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Extent
  • 49M 39S
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Rights In Copyright
Rights holder
  • Children's Hospital of Columbus, Ohio
Credit line
  • Courtesy of Science History Institute
Digitization funder
  • Digitization of this item funded by Eric Rugart in honor of Paulina Rugart, "Pediatrician Aspirant."

Institutional location

Department
Collection
Series arrangement
  • Series VII. Audio-Visual Materials, 1991-1992
Physical container
  • Box 7

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Children's Hospital (Columbus, Ohio). “Skin Puncture and Blood Collection for Infants.” Vhs, 1990. American Association for Clinical Chemistry Records, Box 7. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/p0k2psw.

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