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Being a quite healthy kid who didn’t have too many occasions to pay a visit to a doctor, I grew up with an enormous fear of hospitals, needles, blood and so on. The most frightening experience for me being a little girl was when I had to go to the doctor, maybe once a year, due to a flu or to any other slight disease.

It was my mother’s worst nightmare, because she had to fight, to do her best in order to convince me to stay still. It was hard to obey, because each and every time I saw the doctor’s smock I had the strangest feeling as if someone would like to hurt me instead of making me feel better.

And the worst part was when a nurse was trying to insert a needle under my skin, because you all know, nurses have a thing with our blood. They always need a small sample of our blood. It’s morbid, if you ask me, but that’s the way things are.

So, in order to help those who are afraid of this unpleasant experience, AccuVein, New York-based company, has just announced a brand new product, called AccuVein AV300, which is considered to be the most dreaded competitor to the very well known by now VeinViewer, designed by Luminetx.



Both systems are somehow similar, due to the fact that they are based on infrared imaging which makes it possible for the hemoglobin to be seen under the skin. What’s important is that the AV300 is a great help for the nurses to spot the IV sites that are difficult to find, in order to place the needle.



This is possible because the hemoglobin structure in the blood is able to absorb the infrared light, so when a nurse holds the device above the patient’s skin (at a distance of no more than seven inches), the veins can be easily noticed. More than that, you’ll see that the vasculature is very clear on the surface of the skin, which allows the nurse to collect, just like I said before, a blood sample, or to administer medications.

As for the features, you should know that the AccuVein AV300 is a very easy to learn and use device and you won’t have to adjust it before using it. Being very small, at only 10 ounces, it has the advantage of a great portability. In addition, it has the hands-free option, the no patient contact option, it is able to work either in light or dark conditions and runs on a rechargeable battery, so an electrical outlet won’t be needed.

(Source: MedGadget)