- Jessica R Johnson, chemical pathology specialty registrar
- Laboratory Medicine, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
- jessica.johnson13{at}nhs.net
Silverstein and colleagues advise using paediatric blood bottles to reduce blood volumes for routine adult testing to minimise the amount of blood drawn.1 Although fine in theory, this would be very hard to implement. In most trusts, the processing of adult samples is almost entirely automated; additional steps …