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Phlebotomy

This repository of phlebotomy education provides on-demand learning designed to strengthen essential specimen collection skills. These activities cover best practices in blood draw techniques, specimen handling, and safety procedures, among many other topics. Each course offers practical guidance from experienced Mayo Clinic professionals to enhance proficiency while maintaining high standards of patient care.

Test tubes filled with blood.
Phlebotomy Top Gun: Order of Draw-Do We Still Care?
February 12, 2019

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., will cover the need and evidence behind following the order of draw recommendations for routine blood collection. Specifically, does evidence demonstrate a need to collect serum tubes before either potassium EDTA or citrate tubes?
A gloved hand holding test tubes with bar codes.
Top Gun Phlebotomy: Pseudohyperkalemia
September 10, 2018

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., describes how pseudohyperkalemia has many causes, from collection techniques, processing, and even transport. This presentation focuses on the various preanalytic and analytic causes of pseudohyperkalemia and what you as a phlebotomist can do to prevent it.