Your blood is a delicate mixture. Researchers and clinicians often use blood to learn what's going on inside our bodies, in part because siphoning off a tube of blood is easier and less painful than ...

IntroductionIn the ICU and operating room, we perform blood sampling from arterial lines almost every day.On the other hand, how much blood should be discarded before sampling is an area where there ...

If a patient or research study volunteer is having a blood draw at or near a research facility that can perform this type of experiment on site, time delay doesn’t come into play. But for research ...