AUSTIN, Texas — Drivers suspected of driving while intoxicated in Austin may face a different process than in most other places. The Austin Police Department (APD) recently launched a program that has ...

Jail nurses won’t do it, and Austin-Travis County EMS medics are looking to get out of it. So now, people arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated could have their blood drawn at the jail by ...

EXPLAINS HOW IT WORKS. IT’S NOT UNCOMMON FOR POLICE OFFICERS TO HEAD TO AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT TO GET BLOOD DRAWN FROM A SUSPECTED IMPAIRED DRIVER, BUT THEY SAY THERE COULD BE A BETTER WAY. IT’S ...

While many other areas in the practice of medicine have been augmented by increasingly sophisticated technology, phlebotomy – the practice of drawing blood for laboratory analysis – has remained ...

In the not too distant future, if you are arrested on the suspicion of driving drunk, you could have your blood drawn by a police officer to check your blood-alcohol level. The state Department of ...

On Dec. 16, the high court issued its opinion in State of New Mexico v. Adams, one of six cases with similar fact patterns. The New Mexico Supreme Court recently held that an emergency room technician ...

Chicago (tca/dpa) — The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it did 50 years ago. That process, however, may be about to get a modern ...

MONTVILLE, CT (WFSB) - Police officers in one Connecticut community are learning how to become phlebotomists. The pilot program has been gaining popularity and some say it is helpful when it comes to ...

MADISON (WKBT) -- Beginning next year, Wisconsin police officers could start drawing blood for alcohol and drug arrests. They would take over for medical workers who are currently assigned the task.

A pilot program to train Missouri law enforcement officers in phlebotomy, the act of drawing blood for testing, will launch Saturday. The pilot program, a project of the Missouri Safety Center, plans ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Austin Police Department is piloting a program where some police officers are drawing blood from people suspected of driving under the influence instead of emergency medical ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – Pennsylvania is now joining 22 other states by offering training for police officers to become phlebotomists. Officials say about 40,000 people in Pennsylvania are arrested ...