IO's?...good for?

morgan mcmonagle drmorganmc at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 20 15:43:24 GMT 2007

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However, am I right in saying that you should inform
the lab that it's marrow and not blood before
processing, othwise they'll phone you back in a panic
to tell you your paient has "leukemia"!?

Morgan


--- "p.bjorn at netzero.net" <p.bjorn at netzero.net> wrote:

> Let's be clear: living human bone marrow looks and
> behaves EXACTLY 
> LIKE BLOOD.  You should have no trouble aspirating
> or flushing your 
> IO needle.  If you do, distrust its placement.
> 
> As for significant bone fragments or cores, they're
> all but unheard 
> of and invariably related to either the tool or the
> technician.  
> 
> I suspect there's some undertraining going on out
> there.
> 
> Pret
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