IV Cannula Exporters in Worldwide

For some inserting an IV Cannula into the vein of the elderly patients continues to be challenging tasks. The reason behind this is though the veins might seem to be visible they might still turn out to be really very fragile. Their veins turn out to be fragile because they begin to experience some kind of changes when it comes to their skin, followed by the texture, depth, integrity making them prone towards tears and bruising. Keeping the above things in mind given below are the five major things that you need to consider when it comes to inserting an IV Cannula among the elderly people.

Do not use a tourniquet: Instead of using a tourniquet you can try and lower the arm of the patient by applying a warm compressor before going ahead and performing the venipunctures. And incase of using a tourniquet make sure that is made of up soft material before going ahead and applying on it. Using a tight tourniquet on older adults can easily lead to the process of blowing up the vein.

While inserting make sure that you do it slowly: By making use of the bevel up approach try and insert the needle right on top of the vein, making sure that the vein is stabilized. Also try and make sure that the needle is kept in 20 to 30 degree angle or almost flat to the skin. Once you penetrate the vein with just one stroke move the needle and the cannula very slowly.

Make sure that you do not apply too much of friction: Try and be gentle in order to avoid burning and bruising of the patients. Do keep in mind that the olderly patients tend to have fragile veins and applying too much of friction to it can lead to damage in the surface tissues, adding them to a risk of bacterial infections.

Knowing the depth of the vein: This is actually done in order to know and get an idea of how far you will be inserting the needle. Try and insert the needle keeping it at an angle that is 10 to 20 degrees since the adults have shallow kind of veins.

Applying pressure after removing the needle: It is believed that the older adults generally tend to have prolonged bleeding times, and clot formation would take a longer time to occur, even if they are not using any anticoagulant.

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