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MONTICELLO â Health care workers in Monticello now have the ability to see a patientâs veins before poking them with a needle.
Thanks to a $14,000 grant in early February, Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital now has a second VeinViewer Vision 2 device. It is technology that allows nurses and clinicians the ability to locate a personâs veins â especially those who prove to be a âhard stick.â
âIn 2018, a VeinViewer was purchased for the emergency department on the first floor. All the nursing units were trained to use the VeinViewer and found it to be helpful with hard-to-stick cases,â said Jennifer Hicks, manager of surgical services at IU Health White. âThe inpatient unit and surgical departments borrow it daily, moving it from floor to floor. It is a piece of equipment that has been utilized by every department on over 90% of patients.