Vein Finder Use in Geriatric Care centers

Geriatric care centers provide health care experts such as nurses, neuropsychologists, physical therapists, and social workers who specialize in caring for elderly people in order to give specialized treatment, maintain, and enhance their health.

Geriatricians  are specialists that can cope with and provide treatments of many different diseases and conditions impacting the older adult, including:

·         Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

·         Arthritis

·         Depression

·         Diabetes

·         Falls and Mobility

·         Heart Disease

·         Stroke

·         High Blood Pressure

·         High Cholesterol

·         Memory Loss

·         Osteoporosis

Blood testing is very helpful when it comes to measuring and evaluating many common complaints that affect aging adults Like blood sugar, blood pressure, and Cholesterol. Therefore, geriatricians tend to routinely order or recommend blood tests.

This treatment necessitates careful vein selection. The use of a vein finder would make it easier for the nurse to discover the vein, eliminating botched injections that might cause discomfort and anguish to the patient.

Indeed, due to the skin state of the elderly, blood drawing can become quite difficult. Their skin becomes thinner, dryer, and more delicate. Not only that, but the blood vessels become more sensitive, therefore a venipuncture failure might cause these tiny blood vessels to shatter easily. As a result, bruising, swelling, or even bleeding under the skin may occur.

The SIFVEIN-5.2 is intended particularly for circumstances where finding the vein is challenging or requires extra focus and caution. The SIFVEIN-5.2 can clearly see veins in a depth of 10 mm under the skin, regardless of the patient’s age, skin color, or obesity level.

Furthermore, it has a depth recognition mode that improves the judgment of the vein’s depth, as well as three colors (Red, Green, and White) that can be switched at will depending on the light of the room and the patient’s skin tone, so the vein becomes more visible, easier to access, and the clinical accuracy improves. As a result, any potential misdiagnosis is eliminated, and the elderly patients are spared agony, worry, and anguish.

Accordingly, the Vein finder can be useful in geriatric care centers in different cases like blood specimen collection for testing, revealing the entry point for medications, and for assisting in blood transfusions.

The Skin condition for elderly patients can make the task of venipuncture difficult for nurses or geriatricians which often results in multiple attempts in needle insertion. In this case, The use of a vein finder is greatly needed and highly valuable to prevent all the mishaps and pave the way for easier and quicker performed tasks by these professionals.

Ref: Elderly Care (Geriatrics)

Disclaimer: Although the information we provide is used by different doctors and medical staff to perform their procedures and clinical applications, the information contained in this article is for consideration only. SIFVEINFINDER is not responsible neither for the misuse of the device nor for the wrong or random generalizability of the device in all clinical applications or procedures mentioned in our articles. Users must have the proper training and skills to perform the procedure with each vein finder device.

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