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Secrets to Speedier Room Turnover - November 2013 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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OSE_1311_part1_Layout 1 11/6/13 8:57 AM Page 34 ANESTHESIA ALERT Denise Gallagher, RN, BSN The Body Mechanics of Great IV Starts With a 97% first-try success rate, we've ditched the Band-Aids. W hen you EASIER ACCESS Hanging the patient's hand off the need to get end of a blanket or pillow gets the knuckles out of the way and improves the angle. an IV started, your first attempt is your best chance at success. Once you miss a vein, the situation tends to go downhill, and each additional attempt becomes that much more challenging. That's why the ABC's are so important: Always be comfortable and always be confident. In the last ambulatory care department where I worked, the anesthesiologists were complaining about all the Band-Aids on the arms of patients whose IV starts were missed. So I conducted a random study of 262 patients over a 3-month period and found the IV success rate was only 75%. But after I conducted an in-service on the ABC's and the body mechanics of IV insertions, the improvement was dramatic. A year later, our success rate was up to 97%. It starts with comfort and confidence, and those apply to both you and the patient, by the way. When you're comfortable and confident, your patient is much more likely to feel the same way. How can you 3 4 O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | N O V E M B E R 2013

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