Abstract
Analysis of both venous and arterial blood is an important part of modern diagnostics. Basically, blood samples should only be performed if there is an adequate intervention to an abnormal laboratory value or if the parameter otherwise offers a help in diagnosis of the patient, in grading the severity of the disease, or in estimating the patient’s prognosis.
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Nielsen, R.P. (2012). Blood Samples. In: Sundstrom, T., Grände, PO., Juul, N., Kock-Jensen, C., Romner, B., Wester, K. (eds) Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28126-6_14
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