LabQ 2024 Phlebotomy Exercise 4: Phlebotomy: Phlebotomy and Kidney Transplant Recipients

Author

Mallory Bouck, CLS ASCP

Medical Technologist

White Wilson Medical Center 

Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Primary Audience: Phlebotomists, Laboratory Technologists, Laboratory Directors

Secondary Audience: Pathologists, Clinical Scientists (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants, Residents, and Students

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

• discuss challenges in performing phlebotomy procedures on patients who have received kidney transplants; 

• identify proper specimen collection when drawing blood from a venous catheter or an arteriovenous fistula; 

• describe posttransplant anemia; 

• discuss how laboratory tests can be affected by hemolysis or sample dilution during phlebotomy; 

• explain, in order, which sites are best for blood draws; and 

• identify draw sites that require physician approval for use.