Understanding Phlebotomy Flashcards
Act of opening a vein by using incision or puncture methods to draw blood for analysis or as part of therapeutic or diagnostic measures under the physician’s request
Phlebotomy or Venesection
It means vein
Phlebos
It means cut
Tome
Used crude tools to cut vevssels and drain from the body
Stone Age
Phlebotomy was a form of Bloodletting
Ancient Egyptians (1400 BC)
Phlebotomomy: Balance of the four humors, removing the excess by bloodletting
Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
Phlebotomy was used to treat illness and performed by barber-surgeons
Middle Ages
Plebotomy was treated as a major therapy
17th and 18th Century
Four Humors
Earth
Air
Fire
Water
Earth
Blood and Brain
Air
Phlegm and Lungs
Fire
Black Bile and Spleen
Water
Yellow Bile and Gall Bladder
Application of special heated suction cups on the patient’s skin
Cupping
Incisions are performed using what in cupping?
Fleam or Lancet
Also known as Hirudotherapy
Leeching
Scientific name for leeches
Hirudo Medicinalis
What does leeches have that improve bloodflow?
- Local Vasodilator Anasthetic
- Hirudin which is an anticoagulant
Roles of Phlebotomist
- Diagnosis
- Transfusion
- Removal of Blood
Treatment using blood samples
Diagnosis
Remove blood at the donor center
Transfusion