Preterm blood counts vary with sampling site.
Open Access
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 62 (1) , 74-75
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.62.1.74
Abstract
In preterm babies both haemoglobin and total neutrophil count values from capillary sites are significantly and variably higher than those from simultaneous arterial samples. Comparing simultaneous venous and arterial samples, the mean haemoglobin was slightly higher but the total neutrophil counts were similar.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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