NICU IV insertion

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Hi,I would like to know about neonatal IV insertion technique with figures.

If possible any site.

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Specializes in NICU, Psych, Education.

No pics, but this one should get you started. Found it by Googling 'neonatal IV insertion.'

http://www.unchealthcare.org/site/Nursing/nurspractice/procedures/procedures/procedurei6.pdf#search='neonatal%20IV%20insertion'

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Thank you,we are facing problems sometimes with neonates.Sometimes we can not see anything even with fibre optic.This is why i was thinking of a figure to see the anatomy of the baby's veins.

Thank you for the article.Are you working in Houston?NICU rn?I was planning to go to Houston,which hospitalis good as NICU and has good benefits for a foreign RN?

Thank you

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Thank you,we are facing problems sometimes with neonates.It happened when we can not see anything even with fibre optic.This is why i was thinking of a figure to see the anatomy of the baby's veins.

Thank you for the article.Are you working in Houston?NICU RN ?

I was planning to go to Houston,which hospital is good as NICU and has good benefits for a foreign RN?

Thank you

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Specializes in NICU, Psych, Education.

Yes, I'm a NICU RN in Houston. If you send me a PM, I would be glad to give you some more information.

Good luck!

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Specializes in NICU.

I went to google images (http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q= and typed in: Dorsal veins of the infant hand and found a diagram on fotosearch.com that has them. It's at http://www.fotosearch.com/LIF145/ped02012/ . Hope that helps!

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Thank you for your helpful emails.

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