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Caprice Cadacio1, Irving Nachamkin
1Department of General Internal Medicine and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Caprice Cadacio, MD, is a hospitalist in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and an assistant professor in the Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She teaches medical students and residents rotating on the inpatient General Medicine wards. She encounters many vascular access patients and is interested in better and safer access for these patients. Irving Nachamkin, DrPH, MPH, FAAM, FIDSA, is director of clinical laboratories and the Division of Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Abstract:
A new US Food and Drug Administration-cleared needleless blood collection device (PIVO; Velano Vascular, San Francisco, CA) for short peripheral catheters was compared with conventional venipuncture for collecting blood samples for routine laboratory analysis from adult healthy volunteers. The PIVO device was comparable with venipuncture in terms of providing high-integrity samples (no hemolysis or clotting), equivalent laboratory values, and better patient experience as assessed by pain scores. Further studies to assess the overall utility of the PIVO device are warranted.
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