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Hello, everyone!
I have been doing a bit of research on my mother's hemoglobin levels. I've noticed a major trend: it seems her hemoglobin is half a point higher when she has her blood drawn directly from a vein, as opposed to when her blood is drawn from her PiCC line. I am worried about something called "hemoglobin dilution" from PICC line draws. She has had issues lately with the nurses getting blood from her PICC line, and so they end up doing a draw from a wrist vein (always with higher hemoglobin levels). Bizarre.
The reason for the sudden increase in hemoglobin at the emergency after her blood draw earlier in the morning last week was perhaps due to hemoglobin dilution, not a rise a blood (not 100% sure). Very concerned about this.
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