Impact of near infrared light in pediatric blood drawing Centre on rate of first attempt success and time of procedure

• Main Authors: Ester Conversano (Author), Giorgio Cozzi (Author), Matteo Pavan (Author), Marta Minute (Author), Elena Gortan (Author), Marcella Montico (Author), Liza Vecchi Brumatti (Author), Luca Ronfani (Author), Egidio Barbi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Peripheral blood access and venipuncture are a stressful and painful experience in pediatric patients; moreover, it is estimated that more than one attempt is required to achieve the procedure in about one third of children. For this reason, we investigated if Near-infrared light...