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Can a nerve be hit when drawing blood?
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Really quite rare: Yet, I have a few patients who had a problem with median nerve over anterior elbow level, antecubital fossa. I think my experience is more than unusual and suspect the odds of this happening must be under 1 in 100, 000 venapunctures.
Answered 9/12/2013
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