New Technology Shows Nurses Where Your Veins Are

[Hissyspit]

http://iphone.sciencealert.com.au/news/20143010-26427.html

[jeff47]

1. After having a phlebotomist root around in my arm with a needle for a few minutes

i'm very much looking forward to this getting rolled out.

[BobbyBoring]

8. You and me!

I had to have a port installed as I had to go in weekly. It was no sooner in when my polycythemia cleared up. After 18 months of perfect labs, I had it removed.
Anyone with a blood disorder can guess what happened next.

[Gothmog]

2. Cool technology

They have to run an A1C on my blood every three months and this may help

[Warpy]

3. I once worked with a recovering heroin addict

I swear that guy could jam an 18 gauge into a capillary.

But yes, this will help newbies a lot while helping the poor patients even more.

[AllyCat]

14. It will help us veteran RNs find veins in puffy pre-eclamptic

Women too. We need this. I feel terrible when I don't get it on the first try.

[Warpy]

15. Post open heart patients were always hugely edematous, also

so that thing would be wonderful, especially for people who were new to the whole thing.

People swore I had dopplers in my fingers.

My problem is that when I get sick enough to go in, my blood pressure is in the toilet and I have to tell them where the veins are.

[deafskeptic]

4. About time!

I hope it spreads quickly because I dread having needles and ivs stuck into me as nurses have a hard time finding a vein they can use. I can end up feeling like a human pincushion at times during my occasional stays at the hospital and rehab.

[blondie58]

5. This is awesome

After the last health fair, when the volunteer couldn't find a decent vein.
I took a break and got some water, then put myself in a state of meditation, which I had just learned.
I didn't even feel it. I love the power of the mind.

[lark]

6. Wow, this could be a major help for people like me

I have shallow, deep veins and regularly have to get hit several times, with the techs/nurses rolling the needle around, and hate the whole process. I would drive further to go to a place with this technology anyday.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. I'm now sitting next to someone who got a horrible blood blister and bruise recently....

The nurse stabbed the visible vein right in the soft tissue at the joint.

Worse. Location. EVAH!

[Hoppy]

9. Why do they need to find the veins, just to check the bumps on your head?

[Helen Borg]

10. This guy is a cyborg!

Lots of rectangular looking veins...

[jmowreader]

11. The first customers in the US will be prisons

Not only can this thing show nurses where your veins are, it can show executioners where they are.

[Odin2005]

12. Does this mean they won't have to poke me 20 times, anymore, to get the needle in?

[AllyCat]

13. I want!