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S U P P L E M E N T T O O U T P AT I E N T
Stick with safety
Once you've located a patient's vein, the
next step is gaining access to it. Recent
decades haven't seen many changes in
the practice of IV catheterization, but
the switch from steel "butterfly" nee-
dles to safety catheters that began in
the early 1990s was a revolution.
According to a recent market
research report, U.S. healthcare facili-
ties use 330 million IV catheters per
year. Almost 90% of those are engi-
neered with active or passive safety
mechanisms, which have become stan-
dard since the mid-'90s.
A quick refresher: Although steel nee-
dles (with their plastic wings on the
sides for stability) were easy to insert,
they also dislodged easily, especially
when they were subjected to patient
movement. The large-bore (often 20-
gauge or 18-gauge) needles also posed
one of the biggest risks of sharps
injuries to perioperative nurses, not to
mention the infection transmission risk
their hollow channels carried. In con-
trast, the plastic safety catheter's use of
an internal needle to puncture the skin
and guide the catheter into the vein
before the needle is withdrawn makes
V A S C U L A R
Standard de!nition
Christie's VeinViewer is the
only vein illumination device
shown to increase IV first-stick
and patient satisfaction by up
to 100%. We're the only company in the market
to pioneer HD imaging with Df
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