Venepuncture practise

RE: Venepuncture practise

Clare Clift — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 22:48:57 GMT

bit of a late reply but hope it helps!

I used the cardboard tube from inside a couch roll then taped drip tubing along one side. For the fluid I used water with a drop of pevidine so you could see it. The drip tubing was attached to a bag on one end, hung on a drip stand. I used some allevyn over the top, then a bit of vetrap over the whole thing.

Re: Venepuncture practise

Steph Worsley — Thu, 01 May 2014 22:51:12 GMT

I had to make a load of these for the vet students OSCES it was not fun lol......I made the legs out of rolled up inco pads and the "vein" was the softer part of drip tubing attached to a bag of fluids with a bit of red food dye in it, over the top I used vetrap and it did actually work quite well

Took me hours though to do about 30 (worked out about 1 leg for 4 students!)

Re: Venepuncture practise

Sal the 1st — Thu, 01 May 2014 22:27:42 GMT

dont use ribena its really sticky - use a drop of food colouring in some water, or use a drop or two of your diffquick if you have it. this comes from somebody who made the same mistake . I used something similar to allevyn for the skin but cant remember what it was called, its a bit thinner and self adhesive so its easier to feel the 'vein' I used an old piece of scavenger tubing for the actual leg and had a 'vein' either side of it so you could use alternate and it lasted longer (more than one trainee = lots of attempts)