Finding a venipuncture site in an IV drug user: drawing blood from addicts with scarred veins will force you to seek out nonroutine sites, as this case shows. Here are tips for avoiding problems.Calhoun, Bridget C
Well, nothing now. And this webbing of veins and arteries, furry with capillaries, rooted in flesh, wrapped around bone — now they are all limp with the loss of blood, deadly still and pale on the autopsy table. We imagine that when this body was alive, it quivered and thumped with ...
Flash forward to earlier this year when the Lord showed me that I had been exposed to lead in my childhood and that this might be something to address specifically. I would come to understand that blood testing for lead shows acute or recent exposures, not ones from years ago. Only bone ...
Hours later, Albuquerque sprawled ahead, and the conflicting emotions of excitement and loss coursed through my veins as I passed the exit I’d taken to my ex’s home countless times before. Instead, I pulled into a weathered extended stay by the interstate, sidestepped a meth deal being ...
I’ve always been highly skeptical of the coal industry’s claims that the ecosystems of the mountains they blow up – because it’s a cheaper way to get to the coal veins – will be restored when they’re finished. But I’d be happy to be proved wrong. ...
t make it. But hope during your pregnancy is life giving and I like to think that your baby feels that hope running through your veins into her little body. Yes we are afraid and we worry about our babies and we stress about the details of the disorder or we dread the possibilities, ...
The blood work wasn’t fun (I passed out a few times while the blood draw was happening) and while the x-ray was easy I was still in very intense pain. By the time I got back to the internal medicine department, I couldn’t find a way to make myself comfortable. The good news ...
Which brings me to a bad thing about this. Despite the fact that my body hated my feeding tube from the get go, tube feeds are a lot better for you than TPN. TPN means a central line which means the possibility of blood stream infections. It’s also not especially friendly to your ...