The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education (한국간호교육학회지)

The Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education (한국간호교육학회)
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Pain and Blood Volume with Different Sampling Sites and Puncture Depths in Vacuum Assisted Auto Lancing Technique for Blood Glucose Test

혈당검사를 위한 진공자동채혈기법사용시 채혈부위와 바늘침투깊이에 따른 통증과 채혈량 분석

  • Park, Mi-Sook (Chungbuk National University Hospital) ;
  • Park, Kyung-Soon (Department of Nursing, Munkyung College) ;
  • Kim, Kyung-Ah (Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Chungbuk National University & CBITRC) ;
  • Cha, Young-Joo (Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine) ;
  • Jun, Myung-Hee (Department of Nursing Science, Oriental Medical College, Daejeon University) ;
  • Kim, Tae-Im (Department of Nursing Science, Oriental Medical College, Daejeon University) ;
  • Lee, Tae-Soo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Chungbuk National University & CBITRC) ;
  • Cha, Eun-Jong (Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Chungbuk National University & CBITRC)
  • 박미숙 (충북대학교병원) ;
  • 박경순 (문경대학 간호과) ;
  • 김경아 (충북대학교 의과대학 의공학교실) ;
  • 차영주 (중앙대학교 의과대학) ;
  • 전명희 (대전대학교 한의과대학 간호학과) ;
  • 김태임 (대전대학교 한의과대학 간호학과) ;
  • ;
  • 차은종 (충북대학교 의과대학 의공학교실)
  • Published : 2006.12.31
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Abstract

Purpose: To analyze the newly developed vacuum assisted auto-lancing technique applied to the forearm for the purpose of obtaining an adequate blood sample for glucose test with minimal pain. Methods: Visual and facial pain measures were introduced to compare lancing pain between the forearm and fingertip in 58 normal females. Sampled blood volumes were accurately measured by computer scanning technique. Results: Visual pain measure demonstrated significant pain reduction effect of the forearm sampling compared with the traditional fingertip sampling, which was also consistent with facial pain measure results. Blood volume more than $0.5{\mu}L$, enough for blood glucose testing with modern glucometers, was collected in 399(86%) of 464 forearm samples. Conclusions: Capillary blood sampling could be performed with minimal pain on the forearm by the newly developed vacuum assisted auto-lancing technique. With some resampling when necessary, the forearm sampling seemed very useful, considering almost no pain felt by the patients.

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