blood transfusioncongenital heart diseasehematocrit levelquality improvementObjective: To determine whether judicious blood testing impacts timing or amount of packed RBC transfusions in infants after heart surgery.Pediatric critical care medicine: a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the ...
As a basic blood test, the HCT doesn’t require fasting or special considerations. Blood is drawn from the inside of the elbow or the back of the hand. With infants and young children, it may involve a small puncture in the heel or fingertip to collect blood onto a test strip. 7 Tips...
Despite the differences in levels of lead in blood, no relation between hematocrit and lead in blood was found (correlation coefficients of 0.25,> 0.05 and 0.11,> 0.05). Lead in maternal and newborn infant blood and hematocrit levels were determined. Despite the difference in hematocrit between...
Optical fiber sensors are potentially capable of continuous measuring hematocrit levels in blood. Low-coherence Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors offer a robust solution, where information about the measurand is encoded in the full spectrum of light reflected from the sensing interferometer. The first ...
It should be noted that pregnant women have extra fluid, which dilutes the blood, decreasing the hematocrit. Dehydration concentrates the blood, which increases the hematocrit. In addition, certain drugs such as penicillin and chloramphenicol may decrease the hematocrit, while glucose levels above ...
Certain conditions can influence the outcome of ahematocrit test, causing the results to be inaccurate. Such situations include living at a high altitude, pregnancy, or severe dehydration. A significant recent blood loss or recent transfusion may also produce misleading results. Doctors will take thes...
Hematocrit has a profound effect on blood viscosity, and may thereby influence flux and diffusion properties of the blood. As newborn infants show a considerable interindividual variability of hematocrit levels, we investigated its effect on levels of AA and AC in dried blood spots. Blood samples ...
Being one of the most frequently ordered tests within a clinical laboratory, the CBC is performed using high-throughput analyzers based on electrical impedance, apertures, or lasers that assess the size, complexity, and number of cells in a blood sample received in an EDTA (lavender top) ...
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In primary healthcare settings, especially in resource-limited settings, macrohematocrit and microhematocrit methods are 2 low-cost, simple tests for determining RBC levels in the blood. Clinically, hematocrit is used to identify anemia and polycythemia along with other parameters, such as RBC count...