Can variable practice habits and injection port dead-volume put patients at risk?
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DOI: 10.1007/s10877-018-0179-3
Abstract: Injection ports used to administer medications and draw blood samples have inherent dead-volume. This volume can potentially lead to inadvertent drug administration, contribute to erroneous laboratory values by dilution of blood samples, and increase the… read more here.
Keywords: volume; dead volume; injection ports; blood ... See more keywords