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Dang, were they actually going into an artery there, or was it just a large opening or you were also on blood thinners or something?
I get an IV every month and they always use a vein, and any bleeding is just a tiny ooze. But I'm holed up for a matter of hours, not days+ as with a hospital stay.
my veins have always had good return when giving samples, and this was in the big through your elbow vein. antecubital. my preferred placement is basilic. the large looking mid-forearm pinky close to the elbow but not too close to it i can still move my arm without pinching the cath or hitting a valve. I thinkthat's antecubital and the basilic but it has been a long time sing i taught myself anatomy.
as far as volume and force and velocity and delta vee i guess this was excessive even for me. i know there's some blood thinner (warfarin i'm guessing) coating around a lot of IV catheters to help them last a little longer, but all i can explain is we used a larger cath (20 instead of 16) because i was really dehydrated when i arrived and i had just gotten pumped with probably 6 liters of saline because that was the last time my kidneys were going to feel sated until the next time my shitter got jammed.
uh that was meant for somenoen else