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Drawing blood from a foot?

Dr. Kennedy replied to EGVnurse's topic in Med-Surg

Using the ankle and foot for venipuncture and IV therapy is to be discouraged because it is a weird thing to do, the feet are relatively thick skinned (deeper epidermis to clean and puncture) and the ankles and feet are hardly as clean as our arms, w...