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need help remembering mnemonic for IV needles

Hope someone is able to help me. I read a mnemonic for IV needles that help with which color matches with gauge. I wrote it down but now that I need it, I can't find it. This is what I remember kinda...lol

"green" with envy=larger needle 18 gauge

"true blue"=22 gauge

"if your chicken"=yellow 24 gauge

any help would be appreciated

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Do you have to memorize them? I just read the labels.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. :o

DeLySh

Same here.

Do you have to memorize them? I just read the labels.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. :o

DeLySh

I promise you after a little while of starting or using IVs, it'll be second nature. Make a point of looking at all your patients sites (you should be doing this anyway), noting the colour and then thinking of the number. Don't worry, it'll come.

Dont worry after exposure you will just know, it is true! Cranial nerves now that needs an acronym!

I always just remember Green Eighteen (they rhyme) and Blue Twenty-Two. And pink's in the middle (20).

I haven't really had to deal with other sizes much.

Dont worry after exposure you will just know, it is true! Cranial nerves now that needs an acronym!

Olfactory=Oh

Optic=Oh

Oculomotor=Oh

Trochlear=To

Trigeminal=Touch

Abducens=And

Facial=Feel

Vestibulocochlear=Very

Glossopharyngeal=Good

Vagus=Velvet

Accessory=A

Hypoglossal=H!

Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel very good velvet AH!

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Our Old Ox Tied To A Fence Ate Green Vegetables And Hay

i just think football. just picture the quaterback......green 18, blue 22...hike!! the other ones are easier to remember with 2 already memorized.

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thank you all...I love the rhyme and the football mnemonic....

Our Old Ox Tied To A Fence Ate Green Vegetables And Hay

Forgive me, and I won't type it here, but I know a "dirty" (well, at least anatomically correct!) one that is SOOOO easy to remember!

Why is it that the DIRTY ones are so memorable? I guess I answered my own question, didn't I really?!

Forgive me, and I won't type it here, but I know a "dirty" (well, at least anatomically correct!) one that is SOOOO easy to remember!

Why is it that the DIRTY ones are so memorable? I guess I answered my own question, didn't I really?!

Yes, me too....I know of a couple of ones...but I'm afraid I'll be banned from the board.

Olfactory=Oh

Optic=Oh

Oculomotor=Oh

Trochlear=To

Trigeminal=Touch

Abducens=And

Facial=Feel

Vestibulocochlear=Very

Glossopharyngeal=Good

Vagus=Velvet

Accessory=A

Hypoglossal=H!

Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel very good velvet AH!

We used this one:

One Of Our Two Timing Adults Found Very Good Values At Home.

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