A survey of newborn blood spot screening practices

Autor:	Catherine Coppinger, Christine Cavanagh, Linda S. Franck
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Newborn screening medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics business.industry Best practice Blood Spot Card Newborn blood spot screening Lancet devices Family medicine Maternity and Midwifery Medicine Training needs Sampling (medicine) business
Zdroj:	British Journal of Midwifery. 13:160-164
ISSN:	2052-4307 0969-4900
DOI:	10.12968/bjom.2005.13.3.17636
Popis:	A comprehensive understanding of current midwifery practices for newborn screening blood spot sampling is lacking. This is an impediment to identifying best practices, training needs, writing of professional guidelines, and highlighting issues that need further investigation. A two-part study surveyed 125 and 101 midwives, respectively, identifying common practices and variability in how the blood spot sampling procedure was conducted. The majority of midwives surveyed reported their traditional practice was to pre-warm the babies' feet although the evidence shows this is not helpful. A wide variety of lancet devices are used, and further research is required to determine the most cost effective device. Practice varies with 60% of midwives not discarding the first spot of blood collected as instructed on the reverse of the blood spot card.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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