TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Phlebotomy A1 - Cho, Christine S. A1 - Posner, Jill C. A2 - Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 - Chiang, Vincent W. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - Phlebotomy is the removal of blood through the puncture of a vein. The history of phlebotomy has its roots in bloodletting to cure multiple ailments. Today, the removal of blood as a therapeutic intervention is limited to a few conditions, but phlebotomy is widely performed to obtain blood for laboratory tests. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146125532 ER -