YAY, meet my new and best friend I’ve made in SIP!
Non medical pple can tune off now. While I go into blood-sucker mode. (someone called me ‘queen of the damned’… haha)
The so-called ‘butterfly needle’ is like a godsend whenever you have to take bloods from patients with fine veins, or patients who are restless/tend to twitch (we get twitchy ones in neuro… seizures and stuff…) or those who just squirm cuz of the pain. Yup. When you use the usual blue needle, the vein bumps, or you go through-and-through if you just move a teeny weeny bit (especially if it’s one of those spidery veins)… plus, it’s so much easier to take blood from ankle veins using this needle.
Apart from that, it’s also easier to do a wrist ABG using it (unless your patient is rolling in fats) as it’s less cumbersome and allows better control of the needle.
I attribute my wonderful 29 hours of 100% rate with all procedures to this, it works wonders, even with renal patients! hahaha…
