[Phlebotomy-related complications. Introduction].

Recently, management of the central phlebotomy station by the clinical laboratory has become the norm and phlebotomy is a routine job for many medical technologists. Although venipuncture-related accidents, such as nerve injury, unfortunately happen in a low but fixed ratio, there is little information to avoid this risk. This topic consists of three excellent reviews: Dr. Tanabe reviewed "Iatrogenic peripheral nerve injury; mechanism and therapy", Dr. Ohnishi reviewed "effective methods to prevent nerve injury at venipuncture", and Dr. Kitamura reviewed "An effective and efficient method of painless venipuncture in children". I believe these three articles will be of great help to many medical technologists and clinical laboratory physicians to perform phlebotomy safely.