Why are neck IVs worse than hand IVs? Does that implied a ruptured vein in your arm? I have never heard of anyone getting a neck IV but I’m also not in the medical field
I’ve never heard of a neck IV. never seen one. I don’t work in medicine but I am more of a professional patient. Have lived at least a year and a half of my life inside a hospital (yes I have done the maths properly) to the point where said hospital had a “this is [whatever my username at the moment is]'s room” for like ten years on the door, and if I got admitted, it was my room as soon as it was vacant.
(it was a nice single room in the corner with a good view of the big tree across the parking lot and had an adjoining single room connected by accordion wall. If it was a slow week in the hospital they’d let me open up the accordion, push the other gurney to the wall and have a human sized room instead of a prisoner sized room. They were wonderfully accommodating)
Anyways my point is, if they are at the point of having to start a line in the neck, they’d probably do what’s called a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) line (run a larger catheter from an arm or leg to the heart, used for longer term stays or more caustic liquid medications) or a heart port (used for more caustic medications than PICC lines) instead. The jugular vein I would think has too much pressure for a vein to accept an IV catheter without springing one hell of a leak, but i am only an advanced layperson. They did accidentally start going up my carotid instead of down to my aorta when placing my PICC all those years ago, but it didn’t leave a bruise and I doubt it would. Also we’d see iv ports on his arm (mine hung down to my wrist). But you never know.
like i said, not familiar with the procedure. would we be pumping saline in the carotid to increase pressure? this is completely outside the fields of medicine i have experience with.
Not in the medical field, but yes I think you got it right. I saw similar with my grandma, the nurses started with less visible areas - arms legs, later moved to feet and finally hands. She didn’t make it to the neck, but I have to think it’s a sign they are running out of places to poke
Why are neck IVs worse than hand IVs? Does that implied a ruptured vein in your arm? I have never heard of anyone getting a neck IV but I’m also not in the medical field
I’ve never heard of a neck IV. never seen one. I don’t work in medicine but I am more of a professional patient. Have lived at least a year and a half of my life inside a hospital (yes I have done the maths properly) to the point where said hospital had a “this is [whatever my username at the moment is]'s room” for like ten years on the door, and if I got admitted, it was my room as soon as it was vacant.
(it was a nice single room in the corner with a good view of the big tree across the parking lot and had an adjoining single room connected by accordion wall. If it was a slow week in the hospital they’d let me open up the accordion, push the other gurney to the wall and have a human sized room instead of a prisoner sized room. They were wonderfully accommodating)
Anyways my point is, if they are at the point of having to start a line in the neck, they’d probably do what’s called a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) line (run a larger catheter from an arm or leg to the heart, used for longer term stays or more caustic liquid medications) or a heart port (used for more caustic medications than PICC lines) instead. The jugular vein I would think has too much pressure for a vein to accept an IV catheter without springing one hell of a leak, but i am only an advanced layperson. They did accidentally start going up my carotid instead of down to my aorta when placing my PICC all those years ago, but it didn’t leave a bruise and I doubt it would. Also we’d see iv ports on his arm (mine hung down to my wrist). But you never know.
One procedure would be a neck arterial shunt to try and alleviate dementia symptons from poor brain blood flow.
like i said, not familiar with the procedure. would we be pumping saline in the carotid to increase pressure? this is completely outside the fields of medicine i have experience with.
Not in the medical field, but yes I think you got it right. I saw similar with my grandma, the nurses started with less visible areas - arms legs, later moved to feet and finally hands. She didn’t make it to the neck, but I have to think it’s a sign they are running out of places to poke