“That blue colour line on the skin so fine!
You need them clean to get an IV line!
The bulge in the middle is a fear!
Then the line is not in but near!”
Getting the vein was a pain!
Gave some blood for tests today and was pleased to see how easy it was to collect!
Once you are in, the syringe automatically gets locked and the prefilled bottles depending on the tests required are simply inserted and voila it’s done!
I still remember during our residency the blood collection was the biggest challenge! Especially after the chief rounds in the medicine department you would get a huge list! And we like Draculas or vampires in white coats would walk around with our small ampoules and the salts to prevent clotting! We would get one syringe and the blood has to be filled in that!
Then after carefully calculating the amount of blood to be distributed, each small ampoules would get the blood ranging from 2_5 ml! The dread was when the lab used to return the sample saying that the sample is inadequate!
Another terror was one with chubby skin! When we used to meet a slim and muscular personal with thick prominent veins we used to feel so happy!
Worst was in the pediatric posting! Oh the kids used to cry and silently so did we!
The baby fat would make sure the vein was so difficult to get! And then the normal syringe may not help so we used to break the tip and use only the needle!
Then the kids would always move at the last moment! No amount of cajoling would work!
One fine day in the ped posting I got a big list from our professor!
Luckily I got the blood in the first attempt! The kid was not very fussy but very young and the mother was very tensed. I carefully put all the blood in the ampoules and was pretty happy with the results! In fact for the first time I may even have surplus blood and that too in pediatrics!
Then suddenly the baby streched and his legs fell on the ampoules on the bed! They dropped down and the whole blood just leaked out! I was so upset! Luckily two ampoules were already labelled and full! So I readjusted the blood and fervently hoped that the lab does not send them back with ‘inadequate sample!’ reason!
It did not happen! Maybe the lab tech was having a good day!
Getting the vein is an art and that too in the first try is the best! Guess more tech would be to make sure this happens more seamlessly in the future!
That would be great! Great also was Pradeep Rawat in many movies and series!
Plus he has such prominent veins!
Ok that’s really insane! Must be the sleep creeping in!
Sbuhbh Ratri…
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