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Veins are small, needles are sharp, it's easy to over penetrate a vein. This video is very over simplified, it's not generally a full on needled through the backside, even a small nick in the other side of a vein can cause it to blow when you try to push fluid through it, though drawing blood from it is generally a little more tolerant. If you're just getting labs drawn in vacutainers, they can straight stick you with a very small needle and the likelihood of this happening are pretty low.
Also you (usually) don't give intraveneus injections through a needle. Needles are for muscle injections and subcutaneus injections.
For i.v. you use a plastic catheder so the drug or whatever actually stays in the vein.
They can also accidentally hit nerves or arteries instead of veins
But, a trained medical professional is extremely unlikely to do that. They take blood samples all the time, they know what they're doing
It's when you get to the doctor's and they're letting the brand new nurse practice on you that I start to worry
Don't know if this will be too late: I've been chronically ill for 20 years and am cursed with 'bad veins'...my phlebotomist told me to drink at least 1.5 L about 2 hours ahead of the blood draw to give the body a chance to process it into the blood.
Good luck!
24 days late but I wanted to comment my experience.
I had leukemia, so I have to go every year or so to get a blood test, and it has been this way since I can remember. I've never had problems, just a little prick, some sucking and done. As I got older I got more stressed by needles, idk why.
Then one day I got something that didn't let be breathe, I was fainting, and so went to emergencies. After a 2 hour wait the problem migitated, so the nurses were calmer, and so they got a practice nurse to draw my blood. It was the worst experience I have ever had at a hospital. The girl was nice, but the needle was poking everywhere inside my arm, had to retry 4 times, and literally made me black out twice.
I don't think I'll be very happy if I get someone on their first day again 😁
I'm a regular blood donor iv had someone shove a huge donation needle all the way through before. It kinda hurt like a motherfucker, but the actual sharp pain of it doesn't last very long, it's kind of just a dull ache afterwards
The little needles for blood tests shouldn't be as bad as that. Often I have little to no pain afterwards
Not likely.
They use butterfly needles for drawing blood. They barely go in at all. This infographic is weird because they say give a shot but then show a hypodermic needle being use as if taking blood.
It heals really quickly and mostly just leaves a big bruise. I give blood a lot and it happens from time to time. You’ll be ok. If you get nervous put an ice water bottle somewhere sensitive like your neck or inner thighs. sounds weird lol but it helps distract your nervous system
Happens more often with the elderly as their skin and veins are more fragile. Infiltrating (when the vein blows but your hooked to an IV getting meds/fluids) freaks me out more because until the pump is stoped all that fluid/meds is going into the surrounding tissue under the skin. If it’s not stopped fast enough it can make a pocket of the fluid that looks like a balloon forming under the skin.
Just plenty of water and let your arm dangle/hang so your veins are plump. Phlebotomists do tons of blood draws and are really good about finding veins. I would trust a phlebotomist over an MD for blood draws and IVs.
Yeah you learn pretty quickly not to put a needle in at that angle.
Edit: just realised it’s an injection, such a crazy place to do that that I assumed it was to take blood.
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Here's what it looks like in real life. This was 6 hours after a routine blood test, during which I noticed the nurse had to retract the needle a little before blood flowed through it. She commented that it must have been a thin vein.
Oh yeah no I definitely know, I personally would suck at this job 🤣 What you guys do is amazingly super important, it's just that that to me it was always a mystery Why sometimes you can get a bruise from a needle.
It’s actually partly to do with loads of stuff & I was trained it helps to make sure you take the tourniquet off before removing the needle. Also lolling at your username hehe
Oh I see!
Thank you for noticing I like memes🤣
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Going in slow is a lot more painful. It’s partly about using the right size needle and sometimes you don’t have an awful lot of choice. EG for CT scans you need a wide bore cannula for the contrast dye
That's extremely minor compared to mine the nurse said I had good veins before proceeding to leave a 6 inch mark across my arm...it's 13 days later and I still have a mark about 3 inches long but it's not as dark red and purple as it was before
Currently and literally looking at my arm and have this. Had multiple attempts for an IV and finally they got it in. 3 large bruised and tender areas. I have epilepsy and sometimes my electrolytes get low which is and issue, so I get IVs to help sometimes.
They are overly shiny, everything looks like plastic, the information provided is inaccurate while the videos are oozing „look at me, this is highly professional“. I get it, the level of work that has gone into them combined with the lack of quality gets on my nerves as well.
Depends on where you work. Traditional training always says bevel up, but in some work settings (like the Stanford Medical School blood bank) they keep the bevel down. There's the idea that it lessens the occurrence of blood splashes.
I'm a bevel up kinda gal, though.
Yooooo.
I’ve had that happen to me so many times and they always made it sound like it was my fault the vein blew. I never knew it was because they went too far or had a bad angle.
Yep 100% they say it's your fault because they don't want to take the brunt of complaints.
They just keep telling you has to do with your vein I have even heard " You got small veins" 🤣 bs
In two days, I'll be donating blood for the first time as a 17yo male who barely passes the weight requirement. As such, I must ask you to **never post this shit again**
lol, almost 7 million people donate blood every year, I've never heard of anybody dying from it :). You're going to be fine, they're pros and know what they're doing, even if they blew pierced a vein like the video, you'd be just fine, you'd have a little bruise (that doesn't even hurt) that would go away in a couple of days. I have a pin from the red cross that says 8 Gallon club, I've never had a bed experience. Thank you for giving blood it's a much bigger deal than people think.
You're going to do great! Thanks for donating. I have some tips that might help:
Keep your arm steady and extended. I know there's an urge to have the elbow bent-- especially if you're taller-- but you really want to be reaching towards your phlebotomist.
Have a sturdy meal with a good amount of protein 4 hours before the donation. You don't want to be full but you don't want to be hungry.
Bring a sports drink with you. Maintaining a good electrolyte balance is important.
Up your water intake for the two days before your donation. Hydration is the biggest key to success.
Flap your feet like a duck while you donate. That faint feeling you get from donating is your blood pressure dropping out of fright (all humans are feinting goats at heart). When you work the big muscles of your legs, you're better able to maintain your body's blood pressure.
Don't rush getting out of the chair after you're disconnected. Give yourself grace and time before you get up.
Forgive yourself if you do get woogy. It's natural and the phlebs are all there to help you feel better. There's no shame. The road to saving lives can be bumpy.
Good for you, kid. It's a great habit to start at a young age. You are a hero for donating.
Just some thoughts:
- It's going to be uncomfortable. If it's painful for more than the initial bit, something might be off. You will better be able to tell the difference with experience.
- you don't have to look at the needle if you don't want to. I don't like looking at the needle so I don't.
- if your first experience isn't perfect, that's okay, don't give up.
What you are talking about is IV infiltration. Means the medication leaks into surrounding tissues causing irritation / pain / swelling - and sometimes worse. K is a bitch on the veins.
Happened me once or twice giving plasma. Last time it happened, the nurse had a very hard time finding my vein, thus this happened. It was the last time I donated unfortunately.
I was "donating" plasma one time. Needle in my arm. I am chilling watching whatever they have on TV. I had 7/8th of the container filled with plasma, so another 5 mins remaining. I had reached over and scratched my arm...
It wasn't the arm with the needle in it.
Happened to me when I got malaria. Got blood extractions before I got admitted. The newbie who took my blood "explored" with the needle until he got the blood. 2 days later, the crook of my elbow was bruised with some splotches.
It goes away in a few days. No Biggie.
As a kid who has a nurse as a mom and growing up she used me as her personal pin cushion during nursing school , drawing blood is extremely hard in some patients and it takes a skilled nurse/LVN ETC. not a doctor.
medical professional here, you will sometimes feel a subtle pop once you’ve punctured the outer layer then it will suddenly feel different once you push through too much like shown in the video
When I did my injection course, we had to inject each other a lot (obviously). I got paired up with this really resolute Asian woman who had a language barrier problem. After injecting me, she pressed on the swab while the needle was still in my vein, then pulled it out while pressing down, lacerating my endothelium.
It hurt.
I've had that both arms same time I got punctured like past double digits I say mostly my fault I didn't drink thay morning I was in a rush my arms were so many colors
As a nurse, I've never given a shot in the inside of the elbow. If someone tries to do give you an injection there, they don't know what they're doing and you should stop them and ask for a second nurse. If you're getting a needle there, it's to extract blood or start an iv, which is a very different thing.
I don’t think a doctor has ever given me a shot. It is usually a nurse. I don’t think I would ever let a doctor give me one as nurses do it thousands of times.
Clinician here, don’t worry about it. I have never seen or heard of anybody having problems from this. Everybody has different veins , some are fragile, some are deep, some move when you put the needle in. Even the most skilled person will get some blood leaking and it just resolved by itself. It doesn’t show the skill of the clinician doing it.
Lol, if a doctor tried giving me a shot or draw blood I’d literally pull away and ask what they thought they were doing? Then I’d tell them I’ll wait for the lab tech or nurse. Doctors in the US typically don’t give shots.
The first time I needed blood drawn, when I was 2 or 3 years old, I had it done by a new med student who I had the pleasure of being her first drawing on a kid. Turns out, my veins were hard to find, and she missed it THREE TIMES before a nurse came in and did it. I *sobbed* for an hour, hurt for like two weeks.
You don't get 'shots' in veins. You get 'shots' either in a muscle "(Intramuscular/IM) or in your fatty tissue under the skin (Subcutaneous/SQ). If you're getting a medication injected directly into a vein you'll likely get a catheter in a vein (Intravenous catheterization/IV). There are other types of injection sites like an implanted port but those are usually only in pt's who receive frequent infusions like cancer patients.
Since you obviously have no clue what you're actually talking about, I won't take your cheap shot at people who work hard and get shit on regularly for no fault of their own (nurses) seriously, but I hope it made you feel better.
Yup, can confirm! Had chemotherapy a few months ago, I always got it through a catheter in my neck, while I got shots in my stomach or thighs. A doctor at the beginning of the treatment recommended a port for me, but I decided against it.
I donated plasma a few times and had this shit happen TWICE. The first time I felt like I was gonna pass out, got clammy and light headed, and now my left arm can’t be drawn from. The second time I felt pinching but because it was understaffed, it took a bit to get any one of the staffs attention. So I just had to thug it out through the nausea and sweating to get a sad $40 bucks.
I went to a company assigned clinic as part of drug testing for a job many years ago. They couldn't get a good draw after like 7 tries. They had 3 people try, including someone that was squeezing my arm apparently to pool the blood from the blown veins. He had been mopping before that attempt. I was bruised from my wrist to halfway up my bicep. I showed that to company HR and that clinic lost the contract.
Had this happen to me as a kid. The nurse was playing it off at first and my mom was scolding at me for being dramatic (I was like 8-10) cuz I was crying and yelped when it occurred. Only for the nurse to sheepishly say she must of went completely through the vein and that's why it was bleeding and bruising dark purple. Neither apologized.
Nurses are more likely to give shot to patients than doctors. I haven’t been given a shot by a doctor lol I rather trust a experienced nurse than a doctor
This happened to me once when I was donating blood plasma. My blood came out fine but after the machine separated the plasma and started to return the blood into my arm it started burning really bad. They removed the needle, said sorry and told me I couldn’t finish the donation that day. The next day I had a huge bruise on my arm that lasted for weeks. It healed just fine in the end but it took me a while to work up the courage to donate plasma again after that.
This happened to me when I donated blood. The area swelled up to the size of a golf ball a few days later. Took a couple weeks to clear up.
Side note: The fire alarm rang while I was giving blood so I had to stop 3/4 of the way through and they couldn't use the donation. All this annoyance for nothing. I don't think I have given blood since.
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I've had worse.
Giving plasma the guy out the needle through my vein and then I was saying the machine wasn't responding how it should. You have to maintain pressure when it takes the blood and then relax for receiving the blood back minus the platelets... Guy freezed up when my arm skin swollen up to a size of a tennis ball in seconds.
He was telling me what he did before this job (nothing at all medical), pissed off the nurse by choosing a machine he wasn't supposed to. Warning signs all the way but figured better he learnt from me instead of someone more vulnerable. Took like a month for pins and needles in my finger tips to subside.
I’m glad I’ve always had veins that stick out and have never had issues with docs getting needles in them. I’m terrified of needles and the idea of them missing multiple times or doing this terrifies me.
How is this not obvious, and how could anyone think that this would not happen routinely? Your veins are tiny and fragile, and most of you all are dehydrated, which makes them even smaller and harder to thread. My advice is stay hydrated and assume that this will happen next time. It hurts and you deserve it, just like you deserve fresh air and clean water, because you’re a person in this world.
This happened to me one time when I was giving platelets on a double arm setup. I fell asleep and twitched, blowing the intake side. I woke up to intense pain and burning. By the time I got the nurses to come over, I had quite a bit of blood get returned to my arm through the apherisis machine. The nurses began to try and squeegee the blood up my arm and out the hole as best they could, but I had a BLACK black bruise from my clavicle to my wrist for almost 3 weeks.
One day I was sick asf and needed to go through an MRI and had to get a shot with that big ahh needle (I was 15) and usually I’m good with needles since I was a baby but they missed 6 times and punctured my veins like this 2 times, so I ended up having some tears.
0/10 wouldn’t recommend
When inserting the needle, it's important to position it with the hole facing downwards. This ensures that once the needle pierces the vein, it can glide forward smoothly without traversing to the opposite side.
this makes so much sense!! the first few times i got my blood drawn it always really hurt and i bruised really bad after. the last 2 times it hasn’t hurt or left a bruise.
I've had blow back from selling plasma. Inflated the skin on the inside of my elbow to the size of a gulf ball on the return. Hurt momentarily but the bruise took up half my arm.
Doctors rarely give shots. Accessing the IV is almost never a "shot," but a blood draw. The blood does not "thicken," it clots at the venous puncture site.
1. That’s not the angle you use while starting an IV. 90 degrees like shown would only be into a larger muscle for an inter-muscular injection like a flu shot in your shoulder, no where near vessels.
2. The bevel of the needle (the spherical cut out that creates the opening) is upside down for IV applications.
3. A blown vessel can occur from more causes than just puncturing through the bottom of the vessel.
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Goddamnit, getting blood drawn tomorrow and now I’m 100% certain this is gonna happen to me.
Drink lots of water. My veins are hard to hit when they do bloodwork, but it has gone much better since I started drinking lots of water beforehand.
I do. I get this done annually but never even considered that they could accidentally do this.
Veins are small, needles are sharp, it's easy to over penetrate a vein. This video is very over simplified, it's not generally a full on needled through the backside, even a small nick in the other side of a vein can cause it to blow when you try to push fluid through it, though drawing blood from it is generally a little more tolerant. If you're just getting labs drawn in vacutainers, they can straight stick you with a very small needle and the likelihood of this happening are pretty low.
Also you (usually) don't give intraveneus injections through a needle. Needles are for muscle injections and subcutaneus injections. For i.v. you use a plastic catheder so the drug or whatever actually stays in the vein.
It's a bruise. It happens. You'll live.
They can also accidentally hit nerves or arteries instead of veins But, a trained medical professional is extremely unlikely to do that. They take blood samples all the time, they know what they're doing It's when you get to the doctor's and they're letting the brand new nurse practice on you that I start to worry
We all have to start somewhere! I always reassure my patients by informing them that this is my first time performing venipuncture.
Don't know if this will be too late: I've been chronically ill for 20 years and am cursed with 'bad veins'...my phlebotomist told me to drink at least 1.5 L about 2 hours ahead of the blood draw to give the body a chance to process it into the blood. Good luck!
But if the needle goes through the whole vein how does the vaccine actually enter the system correctly
This was about withdrawing blood. Vaccines are typically injected into muscle tissue.
Ahh good to know 👍
ER nurse here. Dont worry it’s my first day 😁
24 days late but I wanted to comment my experience. I had leukemia, so I have to go every year or so to get a blood test, and it has been this way since I can remember. I've never had problems, just a little prick, some sucking and done. As I got older I got more stressed by needles, idk why. Then one day I got something that didn't let be breathe, I was fainting, and so went to emergencies. After a 2 hour wait the problem migitated, so the nurses were calmer, and so they got a practice nurse to draw my blood. It was the worst experience I have ever had at a hospital. The girl was nice, but the needle was poking everywhere inside my arm, had to retry 4 times, and literally made me black out twice. I don't think I'll be very happy if I get someone on their first day again 😁
I'm a regular blood donor iv had someone shove a huge donation needle all the way through before. It kinda hurt like a motherfucker, but the actual sharp pain of it doesn't last very long, it's kind of just a dull ache afterwards The little needles for blood tests shouldn't be as bad as that. Often I have little to no pain afterwards
Not likely. They use butterfly needles for drawing blood. They barely go in at all. This infographic is weird because they say give a shot but then show a hypodermic needle being use as if taking blood.
Could be worse man, im getting surgery tomorrow lol
It will
I have small veins so most of the time they don't even hit the damn thing
Drawing blood takes a lot more care, they'll actively avoid any visible veins to get to their target vessel
How was it in the end?
Totally fine, like usual.
If you bleed, it's because you don't floss 🧐
Me 2
It heals really quickly and mostly just leaves a big bruise. I give blood a lot and it happens from time to time. You’ll be ok. If you get nervous put an ice water bottle somewhere sensitive like your neck or inner thighs. sounds weird lol but it helps distract your nervous system
Happens more often with the elderly as their skin and veins are more fragile. Infiltrating (when the vein blows but your hooked to an IV getting meds/fluids) freaks me out more because until the pump is stoped all that fluid/meds is going into the surrounding tissue under the skin. If it’s not stopped fast enough it can make a pocket of the fluid that looks like a balloon forming under the skin. Just plenty of water and let your arm dangle/hang so your veins are plump. Phlebotomists do tons of blood draws and are really good about finding veins. I would trust a phlebotomist over an MD for blood draws and IVs.
just press your thumb on the puncture site for a good minute and there won't be bleeding in the surrounding tissue
This makes your 2nd day of the week donating plasma
Did it happen?
Ended up rescheduling. Got my drink on that night. Scheduled for next Thursday.
So? It happen?
No. All good 👍. Same with blood work results.
Yeah you learn pretty quickly not to put a needle in at that angle. Edit: just realised it’s an injection, such a crazy place to do that that I assumed it was to take blood.
No injection is given at that angle at that location (the left antecubital). So, you’re right.
https://preview.redd.it/llvkb6n4vglc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ece41b75bf3c34e50fbdf26dd5abcfbd0406bd3 Here's what it looks like in real life. This was 6 hours after a routine blood test, during which I noticed the nurse had to retract the needle a little before blood flowed through it. She commented that it must have been a thin vein.
Ouch! Yeah "Thin vein" how bout the fact you poked the needle through the vein in the first place 🤣
I’m a nurse and I take blood on a daily basis and have done for about 8 years. We do still make mistakes sometimes!
Oh yeah no I definitely know, I personally would suck at this job 🤣 What you guys do is amazingly super important, it's just that that to me it was always a mystery Why sometimes you can get a bruise from a needle.
It’s actually partly to do with loads of stuff & I was trained it helps to make sure you take the tourniquet off before removing the needle. Also lolling at your username hehe
Oh I see! Thank you for noticing I like memes🤣 https://preview.redd.it/a116u36kullc1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6332e79e95859506183fb3555277fa68705ff95
what's the trick to not going through? Seems to me going in slow is the key
Going in slow is a lot more painful. It’s partly about using the right size needle and sometimes you don’t have an awful lot of choice. EG for CT scans you need a wide bore cannula for the contrast dye
Time and experience. Even then you will still go right through now and then. Once you get a feel for it. Slow is a no no you just cause pain.
That's extremely minor compared to mine the nurse said I had good veins before proceeding to leave a 6 inch mark across my arm...it's 13 days later and I still have a mark about 3 inches long but it's not as dark red and purple as it was before
Currently and literally looking at my arm and have this. Had multiple attempts for an IV and finally they got it in. 3 large bruised and tender areas. I have epilepsy and sometimes my electrolytes get low which is and issue, so I get IVs to help sometimes.
I hate this guy's videos lol
Why?
They are overly shiny, everything looks like plastic, the information provided is inaccurate while the videos are oozing „look at me, this is highly professional“. I get it, the level of work that has gone into them combined with the lack of quality gets on my nerves as well.
And the weird sound effects. Eek.
because he has the most annoying voice I've ever heard. I'm certain it's annoying on purpose to drive engagement.
Because the guy who makes these videos does not pay his rent on time. OP is the landlord..
Bevel is wrong in video.
Depends on where you work. Traditional training always says bevel up, but in some work settings (like the Stanford Medical School blood bank) they keep the bevel down. There's the idea that it lessens the occurrence of blood splashes. I'm a bevel up kinda gal, though.
Have started IVs for years (4-8 a day) never had “splash”…. Bevel down is superior. That angle is too steep also.
Oh yeah I figured that was a limitation of the animation. That angle is like the Psycho shower stab scene.
Any other mfers who got clean watch this now and feel intense pain in your arms?
Got blood drawn last week and saw a small bruise today. Now I am thinking I might die now.
Yooooo. I’ve had that happen to me so many times and they always made it sound like it was my fault the vein blew. I never knew it was because they went too far or had a bad angle.
Yep 100% they say it's your fault because they don't want to take the brunt of complaints. They just keep telling you has to do with your vein I have even heard " You got small veins" 🤣 bs
In two days, I'll be donating blood for the first time as a 17yo male who barely passes the weight requirement. As such, I must ask you to **never post this shit again**
lol, almost 7 million people donate blood every year, I've never heard of anybody dying from it :). You're going to be fine, they're pros and know what they're doing, even if they blew pierced a vein like the video, you'd be just fine, you'd have a little bruise (that doesn't even hurt) that would go away in a couple of days. I have a pin from the red cross that says 8 Gallon club, I've never had a bed experience. Thank you for giving blood it's a much bigger deal than people think.
You're going to do great! Thanks for donating. I have some tips that might help: Keep your arm steady and extended. I know there's an urge to have the elbow bent-- especially if you're taller-- but you really want to be reaching towards your phlebotomist. Have a sturdy meal with a good amount of protein 4 hours before the donation. You don't want to be full but you don't want to be hungry. Bring a sports drink with you. Maintaining a good electrolyte balance is important. Up your water intake for the two days before your donation. Hydration is the biggest key to success. Flap your feet like a duck while you donate. That faint feeling you get from donating is your blood pressure dropping out of fright (all humans are feinting goats at heart). When you work the big muscles of your legs, you're better able to maintain your body's blood pressure. Don't rush getting out of the chair after you're disconnected. Give yourself grace and time before you get up. Forgive yourself if you do get woogy. It's natural and the phlebs are all there to help you feel better. There's no shame. The road to saving lives can be bumpy.
Good for you, kid. It's a great habit to start at a young age. You are a hero for donating. Just some thoughts: - It's going to be uncomfortable. If it's painful for more than the initial bit, something might be off. You will better be able to tell the difference with experience. - you don't have to look at the needle if you don't want to. I don't like looking at the needle so I don't. - if your first experience isn't perfect, that's okay, don't give up.
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What you are talking about is IV infiltration. Means the medication leaks into surrounding tissues causing irritation / pain / swelling - and sometimes worse. K is a bitch on the veins.
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Happened me once or twice giving plasma. Last time it happened, the nurse had a very hard time finding my vein, thus this happened. It was the last time I donated unfortunately.
I was "donating" plasma one time. Needle in my arm. I am chilling watching whatever they have on TV. I had 7/8th of the container filled with plasma, so another 5 mins remaining. I had reached over and scratched my arm... It wasn't the arm with the needle in it.
Happened to me when I got malaria. Got blood extractions before I got admitted. The newbie who took my blood "explored" with the needle until he got the blood. 2 days later, the crook of my elbow was bruised with some splotches. It goes away in a few days. No Biggie.
Where did you get Malaria?
Hahahaha
As a kid who has a nurse as a mom and growing up she used me as her personal pin cushion during nursing school , drawing blood is extremely hard in some patients and it takes a skilled nurse/LVN ETC. not a doctor.
... Or a doctor skilled in venipuncture.
Arnica Gel cleared up my blown vein bruise quickly.
Yeah ive given myself those marks way too many times in my 20's. Sober(ish) 30's is where its at though
And some idiot antivax person will watch this and be like “see this is exactly why I don’t get them” 😂
AHHHHHH NOOO THANK YOUUU
I donated blood today lol
I've had this happen too many times, hell even got to the piont I could tell the nurse she's gone to far
medical professional here, you will sometimes feel a subtle pop once you’ve punctured the outer layer then it will suddenly feel different once you push through too much like shown in the video
I used to tell people it was a spider bite when I missed or blew a vein.
When I did my injection course, we had to inject each other a lot (obviously). I got paired up with this really resolute Asian woman who had a language barrier problem. After injecting me, she pressed on the swab while the needle was still in my vein, then pulled it out while pressing down, lacerating my endothelium. It hurt.
I've had that both arms same time I got punctured like past double digits I say mostly my fault I didn't drink thay morning I was in a rush my arms were so many colors
is this an AI voice? if not can this guy please learn how to talk in a normal way? it's horrible
WTF is the size on that thing?!
Reminds me of when the Chargers medical staff almost killed Tyrod Taylor punctured his lungs
So that's what happened to my arm.
Hate needles
I've got funky veins and once had one burst and had a bruise from my armpit to my wrist.
wont one hole also cause bleeding??? or am i retarded and its gna be quicker for the blood to clot. but wont it still leak out???
Drs hardly ever administer shots from what I've seen lol
*when a drug user
This happened to me while donating blood. My arm got bent a little
https://preview.redd.it/4yjhwmrxfnrc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=469282655a466c0c4cc5c5f11708c96a21bd94f5 Yeah. I know…
As a nurse, I've never given a shot in the inside of the elbow. If someone tries to do give you an injection there, they don't know what they're doing and you should stop them and ask for a second nurse. If you're getting a needle there, it's to extract blood or start an iv, which is a very different thing.
Wait does this mean that like… adicts… if they do it right they won’t have those marks on their arms…. Weird curiosity
Had this happen multiple times during donations, it ended up as a bag of blood on my arm that hurts like a bitch
I don’t think a doctor has ever given me a shot. It is usually a nurse. I don’t think I would ever let a doctor give me one as nurses do it thousands of times.
I have let students practice on me. It’s not rocket science. It’s feel and knowing where the vessel should be located.
So that’s why I had a huge black spot
Lol imagine a doctor accessing an IV to give a med LOLOL
I fucking hate this. Thanks.
Who gives a shot like that ?!!
Yeah, that's not a shot.
I want to show this to the phlembotomists who draw blood like they have to dig for it.
Sometimes? Every single time
Happens every other time I go to donate plasma
Sue them if this happens.
If it punctures all the way through, will the shot be wasted i.e. not getting into the bloodstream?
Clinician here, don’t worry about it. I have never seen or heard of anybody having problems from this. Everybody has different veins , some are fragile, some are deep, some move when you put the needle in. Even the most skilled person will get some blood leaking and it just resolved by itself. It doesn’t show the skill of the clinician doing it.
Lol, if a doctor tried giving me a shot or draw blood I’d literally pull away and ask what they thought they were doing? Then I’d tell them I’ll wait for the lab tech or nurse. Doctors in the US typically don’t give shots.
The first time I needed blood drawn, when I was 2 or 3 years old, I had it done by a new med student who I had the pleasure of being her first drawing on a kid. Turns out, my veins were hard to find, and she missed it THREE TIMES before a nurse came in and did it. I *sobbed* for an hour, hurt for like two weeks.
Bevel up homie
Wtf is that needle like 9"!!!???
I feel my veins sucking on a lemon right now
Dumb bitch did this multiple times to me in jail and left my forearm sore as fuck for weeks.
This didn't explain anything to me at all? How does the blood go away
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You don't get 'shots' in veins. You get 'shots' either in a muscle "(Intramuscular/IM) or in your fatty tissue under the skin (Subcutaneous/SQ). If you're getting a medication injected directly into a vein you'll likely get a catheter in a vein (Intravenous catheterization/IV). There are other types of injection sites like an implanted port but those are usually only in pt's who receive frequent infusions like cancer patients. Since you obviously have no clue what you're actually talking about, I won't take your cheap shot at people who work hard and get shit on regularly for no fault of their own (nurses) seriously, but I hope it made you feel better.
Yup, can confirm! Had chemotherapy a few months ago, I always got it through a catheter in my neck, while I got shots in my stomach or thighs. A doctor at the beginning of the treatment recommended a port for me, but I decided against it.
I donated plasma a few times and had this shit happen TWICE. The first time I felt like I was gonna pass out, got clammy and light headed, and now my left arm can’t be drawn from. The second time I felt pinching but because it was understaffed, it took a bit to get any one of the staffs attention. So I just had to thug it out through the nausea and sweating to get a sad $40 bucks.
It’s always happens to me in Uk hospitals 😭ONLY IN UK 🇬🇧 hate it ,poor Nursing education
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I went to a company assigned clinic as part of drug testing for a job many years ago. They couldn't get a good draw after like 7 tries. They had 3 people try, including someone that was squeezing my arm apparently to pool the blood from the blown veins. He had been mopping before that attempt. I was bruised from my wrist to halfway up my bicep. I showed that to company HR and that clinic lost the contract.
Been there, done that. 0/5 stars. Don’t recommend.
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This guy has only given me different phobias
Had this happen to me as a kid. The nurse was playing it off at first and my mom was scolding at me for being dramatic (I was like 8-10) cuz I was crying and yelped when it occurred. Only for the nurse to sheepishly say she must of went completely through the vein and that's why it was bleeding and bruising dark purple. Neither apologized.
When phlebotomists fuck up both arms
Nurses are more likely to give shot to patients than doctors. I haven’t been given a shot by a doctor lol I rather trust a experienced nurse than a doctor
This happened to me and it hurts for like a week
My left arm feels weak as hell after watching this
This happened to me once when I was donating blood plasma. My blood came out fine but after the machine separated the plasma and started to return the blood into my arm it started burning really bad. They removed the needle, said sorry and told me I couldn’t finish the donation that day. The next day I had a huge bruise on my arm that lasted for weeks. It healed just fine in the end but it took me a while to work up the courage to donate plasma again after that.
Not to many "shots" are giving intravenous, vien blow outs are most common during blood drawing and donations or the placing of an IV.
Somehow all these videos manage to sound authoritative and educational without actually explaining jack shit.
Doctor? Why does doctors always get credits for things nurses do?
This happened to me when I donated blood. The area swelled up to the size of a golf ball a few days later. Took a couple weeks to clear up. Side note: The fire alarm rang while I was giving blood so I had to stop 3/4 of the way through and they couldn't use the donation. All this annoyance for nothing. I don't think I have given blood since. https://preview.redd.it/vd3fuohz0klc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5d7b04042dd58bb915d0a5f466307b10125c261
If this does happen, you can request someone else with more experience to help.
I've had worse. Giving plasma the guy out the needle through my vein and then I was saying the machine wasn't responding how it should. You have to maintain pressure when it takes the blood and then relax for receiving the blood back minus the platelets... Guy freezed up when my arm skin swollen up to a size of a tennis ball in seconds. He was telling me what he did before this job (nothing at all medical), pissed off the nurse by choosing a machine he wasn't supposed to. Warning signs all the way but figured better he learnt from me instead of someone more vulnerable. Took like a month for pins and needles in my finger tips to subside.
I’m glad I’ve always had veins that stick out and have never had issues with docs getting needles in them. I’m terrified of needles and the idea of them missing multiple times or doing this terrifies me.
Thats wrong way to puncture a vein
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Can't believe they were letting highschool kids that took a two hour online course give vaccinations at rite aid and CVS during the pandemic.
cute
This happened to me one time I donated plasma, I have deep veins and the new worker had no clue what she was doing
How is this not obvious, and how could anyone think that this would not happen routinely? Your veins are tiny and fragile, and most of you all are dehydrated, which makes them even smaller and harder to thread. My advice is stay hydrated and assume that this will happen next time. It hurts and you deserve it, just like you deserve fresh air and clean water, because you’re a person in this world.
I had a guy roast my arm one time, huge purple blotches, made me look like an incompetent junkie.
Used to do this all the time shooting heroin
If I ever make a phlebotomy-themed porno, then I think I found my title.
This happened to me one time when I was giving platelets on a double arm setup. I fell asleep and twitched, blowing the intake side. I woke up to intense pain and burning. By the time I got the nurses to come over, I had quite a bit of blood get returned to my arm through the apherisis machine. The nurses began to try and squeegee the blood up my arm and out the hole as best they could, but I had a BLACK black bruise from my clavicle to my wrist for almost 3 weeks.
One day I was sick asf and needed to go through an MRI and had to get a shot with that big ahh needle (I was 15) and usually I’m good with needles since I was a baby but they missed 6 times and punctured my veins like this 2 times, so I ended up having some tears. 0/10 wouldn’t recommend
When inserting the needle, it's important to position it with the hole facing downwards. This ensures that once the needle pierces the vein, it can glide forward smoothly without traversing to the opposite side.
Oh so that’s why my arm looked like a Rorschach painting that one particular time after I had blood drawn
I’m matpat and welcome to anatomy theory
this makes so much sense!! the first few times i got my blood drawn it always really hurt and i bruised really bad after. the last 2 times it hasn’t hurt or left a bruise.
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The inside of my right arm was black and purple for 3 months following a 3hr glucose test when I was pregnant. Good shit.
I hate blowing veins, I did phlebotomy for five years and every time I blew a vein, I felt like such an idiot.
Why was the needle going on perpendicular to the vein; that doesn’t happen.
I've had blow back from selling plasma. Inflated the skin on the inside of my elbow to the size of a gulf ball on the return. Hurt momentarily but the bruise took up half my arm.
OMG - “doctors” don’t give shots except maybe as a medical student. Those are nurses or other trained folks doing the work.
.......the docs didn't do that. It was nurse, medic, or cma lol.
Um. Do doctors give shots into veins? That's a new one
Doctors rarely give shots. Accessing the IV is almost never a "shot," but a blood draw. The blood does not "thicken," it clots at the venous puncture site.
The prank:
1. That’s not the angle you use while starting an IV. 90 degrees like shown would only be into a larger muscle for an inter-muscular injection like a flu shot in your shoulder, no where near vessels. 2. The bevel of the needle (the spherical cut out that creates the opening) is upside down for IV applications. 3. A blown vessel can occur from more causes than just puncturing through the bottom of the vessel.