Comments on: Vein Light

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:11:22 +0000

I could definitely see a good use for that device with peds, as kids’ veins don’t POP up that often, although we all know they are there. Very interesting invention!

How expensive is it, I wonder?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:08:18 +0000

I also think whatever it takes to get an IV. I’m an ER nurse, and we have a light system. But most of us find it’s use to be a last resort. Only on those patients we have all tried to stick three times each. That light looks easier to use than our handheld one. Ours goes months without being used.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:36:43 +0000

Ha ha. I’m one of those “stupid” nurses that would absolutely LOVE to have that use of that light! Yes, I suck at IV starting. Almost all of my patients in the ICU have central lines so I rarely am required to start and IV, hence I suck at it.

By: RehabRN

RehabRN — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:59:53 +0000

Sean:

Yes, the handy, dandy light is great…if you can get one. My hospital system uses them for peds and occasionally on other floors.

One IV therapy nurse wrote an editorial saying nurses were stupid if we’d have to use the light.

I’m a new nurse…I say, if technology helps me learn the right way fast, let’s do it. Why keep sticking the patient multiple times if we don’t have to do so.