Analysis of pain and blood volume in capillary blood sampling on finger and arm

Author

Park, Mi Sook ; Park, Kyung Soon ; Jun, Myung Hee ; Kim, Tae Im ; Kim, Kyung Ah ; Lee, Tae Soo ; Cha, Eun Jong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Chung-Buk Nat. Univ., Cheongju

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2520

Lastpage

2522

Abstract

Alternative site capillary blood sampling may be a useful way to reduce pain during skin puncture. The present study made quantitative measurement of pain and blood volume for both finger and arm sampling in 58 normal female subjects. Visual pain measures resulted in 1/5~1/3 pain scores for arm relative to finger sampling. Deeper puncture thru skin on arm caused more pain to some degree. 399/464 samples from arm were larger than 0.5muL of blood volume. Modern glucose meters require 0.3~0.5muL of capillary blood for test, thus the success rate of blood sugar test was estimated to be 86%. Since daily sampling on finger could cause serious stress for the diabetes due to pain, arm sampling may be a good alternative. However, resampling followed by test failure should be considered

Keywords

biochemistry; biomedical measurement; blood; capillarity; diseases; molecular biophysics; patient diagnosis; skin; arm sampling; blood volume; diabetes; finger sampling; glucose; pain; site capillary blood sampling; skin puncture; Blood; Diabetes; Fingers; Pain; Sampling methods; Skin; Stress; Sugar; Testing; Volume measurement; Alternative Site Sampling; Diabetes; Pain Measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616981

Filename

1616981