Center's YouTube Channel on Steroids

The Center for Phlebotomy Education's YouTube channel is on steroids. We're up to 37 short clips on a wide variety of phlebotomy topics, all available for free. Over 12,000 subscribers strong, it has become YouTube's go-to channel for quick lessons and inspiration for all who draw blood samples for clinical testing. Here's just a partial list of the current titles available:

• Nightmare on Phlebotomy Street
• Update from our northern Michigan studio
• Why the standards matter
• The order of draw: why you MUST follow it.
• Mixing a blood sample
• Why physicians order blood cultures
• The revised venipuncture standard: will I see you in court?
• Pumping the fist: a really bad idea
• Getting hired as a phlebotomist without experience
• Did I just see you rip that safety shield off?
• The First Commandment of Phlebotomy
• Preventing hemolysis in the blood samples you draw
• Line draws and potassium results: mutually incompatible?
• Positioning pediatric patients
• Preventing iatrogenic anemia
• What impressions are you giving your patients?
• Is that tube full?
• How to prevent newborn screening cards from being rejected by the lab.
• How to draw blood using a tube holder
• How to perform a venipuncture using a syringe
• Performing a venipuncture using a butterfly needle
• How to perform a Modified Allen Test
• Proper patient identification: make no exceptions!
• Preanalytical Errors Real People Real Suffering.

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