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Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device
Blood-based diagnostics are critical for many medical decisions, but mostly rely on venepuncture, which can be inconvenient and painful. The Onflow Serum Gel (Loop Medical SA, Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland) is a novel blood collection device that utilises needle-free technology to collect capillary bl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10217062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37238237 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13101754 |
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author | Noble, Lara Dominique Dixon, Caitlin Moran, Alison Trottet, Charlotte Majam, Mohammed Ismail, Shameema Msolomba, Vanessa Tiyamike Mathobela, Kegomoditswe Queval, Arthur George, Jaya Scott, Lesley Erica Stevens, Wendy Susan |
author_facet | Noble, Lara Dominique Dixon, Caitlin Moran, Alison Trottet, Charlotte Majam, Mohammed Ismail, Shameema Msolomba, Vanessa Tiyamike Mathobela, Kegomoditswe Queval, Arthur George, Jaya Scott, Lesley Erica Stevens, Wendy Susan |
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description | Blood-based diagnostics are critical for many medical decisions, but mostly rely on venepuncture, which can be inconvenient and painful. The Onflow Serum Gel (Loop Medical SA, Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland) is a novel blood collection device that utilises needle-free technology to collect capillary blood. In this pilot study, 100 healthy participants were enrolled and provided two Onflow collected specimens and one venous blood specimen. Five chemistry analytes (AST, ALT, LDH, potassium, creatinine) and haemolysis were measured per specimen, and laboratory analyte results were compared. Onflow was found to be more acceptable than venepuncture with lower pain ratings, and 96.5% of participants would use the Onflow method again. All phlebotomists (100%) found Onflow intuitive and user-friendly, with ~1 mL of Onflow blood successfully collected from 99% of participants in <12 min (mean: 6 min, 40 s) and 91% collected on the first attempt. ALT and AST analytes showed no difference in performance, while creatinine generated a negative bias (−5.6 µmol/L), and increased variability was noted with potassium (3.6%CV) and LDH (6.7%CV), although none were clinically relevant. These differences may be due to 35% of Onflow collected specimens having “mild” haemolysis. Onflow is a promising alternative blood collection device that should now be evaluated in participants with expected abnormal chemistries and as an option for self-collection. |
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spelling | pubmed-102170622023-05-27 Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device Noble, Lara Dominique Dixon, Caitlin Moran, Alison Trottet, Charlotte Majam, Mohammed Ismail, Shameema Msolomba, Vanessa Tiyamike Mathobela, Kegomoditswe Queval, Arthur George, Jaya Scott, Lesley Erica Stevens, Wendy Susan Diagnostics (Basel) Article Blood-based diagnostics are critical for many medical decisions, but mostly rely on venepuncture, which can be inconvenient and painful. The Onflow Serum Gel (Loop Medical SA, Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland) is a novel blood collection device that utilises needle-free technology to collect capillary blood. In this pilot study, 100 healthy participants were enrolled and provided two Onflow collected specimens and one venous blood specimen. Five chemistry analytes (AST, ALT, LDH, potassium, creatinine) and haemolysis were measured per specimen, and laboratory analyte results were compared. Onflow was found to be more acceptable than venepuncture with lower pain ratings, and 96.5% of participants would use the Onflow method again. All phlebotomists (100%) found Onflow intuitive and user-friendly, with ~1 mL of Onflow blood successfully collected from 99% of participants in <12 min (mean: 6 min, 40 s) and 91% collected on the first attempt. ALT and AST analytes showed no difference in performance, while creatinine generated a negative bias (−5.6 µmol/L), and increased variability was noted with potassium (3.6%CV) and LDH (6.7%CV), although none were clinically relevant. These differences may be due to 35% of Onflow collected specimens having “mild” haemolysis. Onflow is a promising alternative blood collection device that should now be evaluated in participants with expected abnormal chemistries and as an option for self-collection. MDPI 2023-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10217062/ /pubmed/37238237 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13101754 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Noble, Lara Dominique Dixon, Caitlin Moran, Alison Trottet, Charlotte Majam, Mohammed Ismail, Shameema Msolomba, Vanessa Tiyamike Mathobela, Kegomoditswe Queval, Arthur George, Jaya Scott, Lesley Erica Stevens, Wendy Susan Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device |
title | Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device |
title_full | Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device |
title_fullStr | Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device |
title_full_unstemmed | Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device |
title_short | Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device |
title_sort | painless capillary blood collection: a rapid evaluation of the onflow device |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10217062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37238237 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13101754 |
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