btowndown

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1. IV help for medic student... tamponading the angiocath?

   btowndown replied to btowndown's topic in New Nurse

   iluvivt, thanks a ton! I am off for a week or so here, but I will let you know. I think part of the problem is placement of my fingers for tamponading.... getting the right distance and location of the vein. Another thing is I have been retracting th...

2. IV help for medic student... tamponading the angiocath?

   btowndown posted a topic in New Nurse

   So, I am in my hospital rotations as a paramedic student. When it comes to starting IVs I have been pretty succesful at getting a patent line. However, my problem is tamponading the vein... most of the time I end up with a huge puddle of blood. I hav...