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Old Mon Sep 2, 2013, 07:17 AM
Chirley Chirley is offline
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Yeah, you're right Cheryl. IV cannulas can be smaller for different types of infusions. It's taking blood that requires a certain size needle.

My hospital had a policy that we could have three attempts at blood taking or cannulation but I never had more than two attempts.

I figured after two attempts that the patient had lost confidence in me and would probably prefer someone else to try and why would I want to put myself through the trauma of having a third attempt when I was obviously having difficulties through either difficult veins or just me having a bad hair day.

Chirley
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