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patients to make a fist and applying a tourniquet.
Milissa Roper, BSN, of Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C.,
shares her step-by-step system. After she warms the patient's arms,
she lets 1 arm hang off the side of bed. She places a tourniquet
tightly about 6 inches above the selected vein site, and then injects
0.05 cc of buffered lidocaine. She then immediately inserts a safety
IV catheter, raises the arm above the patient's heart and connects
the tubing. "I have the best luck squatting or kneeling close to the
selected vein to get a good look at what I'm about to stick," says
Ms. Roper.
"Rub the arm hard, and a lot. When you locate the vein, tap, tap,
tap," says Cheryl L. Robb-Genevich, MSN, CRNA, a nurse anes-
thetist from Southfield, Mich. Adds Ms. Overcash: Before you
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