butterfly needle

He glanced at the butterfly needle embedded atop his hand.

Most lay people are under the impression that using a butterfly needle is easier on their veins and less painful.

Under certain circumstances, a syringe may be used, often with a butterfly needle, which is a plastic catheter attached to a short needle.

Then with a spastic hand managed to jam a butterfly needle into one of the veins on the back of her left hand.

I too had come close, that butterfly needle poised over that bulging vein in my antecubital fossa.

Balancing the bottle between her head and shoulder, Cassi put a few pieces of adhesive tape over the site where the butterfly needle entered her skin.

To facilitate administration via this route, a 25- or 27-gauge butterfly needle can be inserted subcutaneously and left in place for up to 7 days at a time.

If the phlebotomist chooses to use a butterfly needle, the "flash" is still present, and easily visible to the phlebotomy tech as well as the patient.

However, the hazard of using butterfly needles lies in the fact that as the blood flows through the rubber tubing, it cools significantly, thereby clotting faster.

Saline is infused under pressure into the corpus cavernosum with a butterfly needle, and the flow rate needed to maintain an erection indicates the degree of venous leakage.

A BUTTERFLY NEEDLE, IV tubing, and a small bottle of normal saline had been easy to steal from the dog lab.

One night I had played with the little butterfly needle, grasping the two cute wings between thumb and index finger and bending them back over the spine of the needle till they touched, readying the point to puncture the vein.

Winged infusion sets "butterfly infusion set", "scalp vein infusion set", "heparin lock" (frequently known under their Terumo Surflo Winged Infusion Set trademark as Butterfly needles) are used in venipuncture (phlebotomy).

We got out and I led her upstairs to the turret bedroom and opened the top drawer of the dresser and took out the small IV bottle of normal saline and the polyethylene tubing with the stopcock and butterfly needle and the bottle of phenobarb.