Patient Complications and Conditions

• If the patient have ADHESIVE ALLERGY from micropore, hold PRESSURE for 5 MINUTES
• If the patient has ANTISEPTIC ALLERGY, use ALTERNATE ANTISEPTICS.
• If the patient has LATEX ALLERGY, avoid physical contact with LATEX products
• Excessive bleeding is caused by what?

  Aspirin or anticoagulant therapy
• Fainting: loss of conciousness
• Fainting lasts for how long?

  few seconds or as long as half an hour
• How long should we monitor the patient after fainting?

  at least 15 minutes
• After how many minutes can the patient drive after fainting?

  30 minutes
• When the patient fainted, release the what and remove and discard the what as quickly as possible?

  Release the tourniquet and remove and discard the needle.
• Apply pressure to the site while having the patient LOWER the head and breathe deeply.
• Apply what to the forehead and back of the neck?

  Cold compress or wet washcloth
• DOCUMENT the incident according to facility protocol.
• The numbness of the arm, burning or electric shock sensation, and pain that radiates up and down the arm are indicators of what?

  Nerve was hit
• Petechiae and hematoma differ in what?

  volume
• Petechiae: tiny and nonraised red spots LESS THAN 3mm
• Petechiae appear after what?

  tourniquet application
• Petechiae DOES NOT mean that the phlebotomist used incorrect procedure.
• Petechiae can cause what?

  excessive bleeding