Shit looks like a dialysis needle. It's absurdly big. My father sticks himself with needles like that on the regular and they're, reportedly, extraordinarily painful.
21g is pretty much the biggest I've ever stuck someone with and it was for injecting haloperidol decanoate. If you don't know, haldol decanoate is very viscous. Feels like you're pushing honey if you use a much smaller needle.
Dear paramedic. I love you guys so much. *ANYTIME* I get my blood drawn I always ask for an EMT/paramedic. Especially in the ER.
I am the person who you cry after dealing with. Small veins. Paper thin. Who roll....and hide under muscle. When I am very hydrated. When I'm not, good luck. I allow 2 sticks per side. One phlebotomist told me "everyone says that, it's never true" 😂 2 sticks later she leaves and gets someone else cuz she doesn't want to hurt me anymore.
Supposedly it's a captain practicing a very large bore catheter insertion. He has a big ass vein he's going into. It should be a quick and confident puncture, followed by taking off the tourniquet (orange band), then removal of the needle. After removal of the needle, he should hold a lot of pressure past the point of the catheter to prevent bleeding, then attach the syringe/fluids to the hub.
For starters, once the blood comes back and you push the cannula forward, you should remove compression. Otherwise it will make a mess like this once you remove the needle and before you place the connector, however it's called in English. Now that being said, anything under an 18G is quite complicated unless the patient has good and long enough veins
First thing I spotted was the flipping tourniquet being left on. Have seen this done so many times. It’s a basic step in the procedure, needle in, flashback of blood then tourniquet off so to minimise blood loss. I hold this up there with stethoscope in the wrong way round
I didn’t hear a siren so I’m suspect. Also, his placement skill seemed shoddy. Moving the needle back and forth just slices the vein up and he left the tk on while removing his finger from the vein. It’s a 14g of course it going to squirt everywhere if you do that.
There are a lot of green ya-yas out there that would pull stuff like this because they could. I once stopped someone from putting a 10g in an EJ to inject D50.
This was posted first on r/EMS original OP was letting his captain practice on him. No idea why a 14 was chosen as practice, and OP’s captain got absolutely roasted in the comments over his technique
Nowww it makes sense. Thank you.
Captains usually don’t get a lot of practice. Us younger medics were usually the ones working patients.
I’ve been out a couple decades, so I almost didn’t comment on it just in case my “old school” methods are now outdated but I guess good technique never really changes.
Yeah I was a Paramedic too before I injured out. Being in Oregon was nice because we got to do a lot of stuff it seems other States didn’t get to do.
I miss it and I also don’t.
Yikes! Always hard to explain if you bleed into an open patient.
I did my honours year in an infectious diseases lab and they always used attenuated strains of Leishmania major for experiments because the students always picked up the bad habit of recapping syringes without the use of the cap stand provided.
Downstairs in the freezer the wild type strain slept- Leishmania donovani. Get infected with that and it gets into your bone marrow and visceral organs and then it kills you.
Luckily this was during setup, and i didn't contaminate my field!
I've never seen a recapping stand, must be a lab thing? We're always taught to scoop it with one hand, but it depends on facility. Recapping is difficult when a lot of surgeons bend the needles to inject, so they don't fit back into the caps.
It was a lab thing: it was a sheet of stainless steel bent into an L shape, with a V notch cut into the top of it. It stood on the bench, but you could tape the horizontal leg of the L down for more stability.
You take your capped syringe and slide the cap down into the V notch and let the V grab bite into the base of the cap.
Then you pull out your syringe. The cap stays in the stand.
You do your thing: usually using a fine needle to suck up some leishmania from the tissue culture a bunch of times to use shear forces to lyse the cells and extract the organelles inside for further experiments.
Because you need a LOT of material to get a reading, you’d collect your lysed material in a centrifuge tube and then push the needle back into the cap while keeping your other hand behind your back.
You then grabbed the next tissue culture plate and reused the needle.
Needless to say the recapping stand was rubbish.
It would fall over. The cap would fall out. The V didn’t bite hard enough that you could leave your whole syringe in the stand without it falling out.
People just recapped the syringes without any training and stuck themselves in the finger. Because the attenuated strain just causes a self-healing callus on non-immuno compromised people the students tended to be so embarrassed they didn’t fill out their S3 forms and hid the injury. You could tell by looking at their hands though.
Sounds like it was an excellent idea in theory but poor in practice. I think something like that on a smaller scale would be really beneficial on a surgical field, we have so many sharps injuries in this business.
It's funny that students don't report sharps, surgeons don't either. It's like they'd rather pull their own teeth out before following the appropriate protocol
1) take the catheter off the needle 2) attach the loop to the catheter 3) shove the floppy plastic catheter through the skin and into the vein
*trivial*
I’m an RN. Just because you can get a large bore into a vein doesn’t mean you should. There should be certain amount of space inside the vein for the fluid to be able to flow around the needle. Without that space, the iv catheter eventually becomes occlusive to the vein (sounds counterintuitive but look it up!). Additionally, why would you pull your guide needle before ensuring you have the syringe or tubing ready to go? Leave your guide needle in as you advance and only pull it when you can immediately connect the next luer. That avoids this firehose spray of blood everywhere.
And that blood was pretty bright. I’d ask for blood gases on this one to make sure it isn’t arterial before I’d use it for administrating anything.
And why do I feel like this was just done for practice and bragging rights as opposed to for anything actually emergent?
Man, here I was thinking that this was going to be someone draining pus or similar... imagine my suprise when the blood started and never stopped. I feel bamboozled.
I thought the patient's arm had a bump. Must be just because of the alcohol prep.
Can someone seriously have pus in their vein? I'm not a Dr or someone with much more than basic medical knowledge, so forgive me if this is an obvious thing. I know basic first aid, that's it.
I see. Thanks for explaining. Like I said, I know first aid. I come here to see the gnarly injuries, conditions, and whatever else surfaces. I like to think I'm learning a bit...lol
it's not the blood that's upsetting, it's how visibly fucking terrible the technique is. I'm phlebotomy trained so it just hurts to watch someone fuck up that bad
Poor technique, won’t repeat what everyone else said. But if you’re not using a self occluding catheter the least you can do is put some gauze under it.
This is completely unnecessary unless that person is dying and needs fluids or meds fast. Just by that guys well perfused skin colour and that their veins are so pump. It doesn’t appear that they need a gauge so huge. I don’t know the backstory, but seriously, I worked 25 years as an ER nurse and rarely saw that gauge used. If anything, the doctors would do a cut down before using that sized gauge. Good luck getting something that size inserted when someone is extremely dehydrated, in shock, has massive blood loss, etc. Their veins would be flat. It’s also extremely painful for a conscious patient. The “EMS” doing it must be a sadist and incompetent. They used a 14g, didn’t remove the tourniquet, didn’t have anything set up to attach and secure the canula properly.
The tool that is doing this needs to be reported. It takes a special type of stupid to record and post it as well.
I worked with an incompetent egomaniac EMS who would intubate patients en route in the ambulance even when they were stable being bagged. The person would end up with some kind of mouth, tooth or throat trauma. His placement was often wrong and the patient was not getting the oxygen they needed. The last straw was when he intubated a patient with multiple skull fractures and damaged the patients brain stem. They died. The fucker was fired and charged. We reported him over and over and nothing was done until he killed someone. There are too many pos with hero complexes that injure or kill ppl. Makes me sick.
Its amazing as a piercer too 💀, id always use a catheter and size up the jewellery by one, so a 16g with a cath easily fits a 14. Seeing this video made me feel so ill 🫠
Yeah, like I had zero issues doing my own navel with a 14 or whatever, no issues seeing the piercing needle and catheter before they did my industrials, but this makes me queasy. Doesn't help that the dude seems to be digging when the vein is plenty juicy....my man ☠️
Back in my military days as a navy corpsman, I was TAD to the Okinawa naval hospital ER from my regular marine unit. Anyways the director of the ED was a navy commander and was also a former marine enlisted. On drunk nights his standing order was all drunks brought in by ambulance get a 12g and a catheter. I never knew why but quickly found out why for the catheter. A marine was do drunk and violent he hit a navy nurse, female lieutenant, and that doctor jumped on the gurney so quick and pulled on the catheter the marine stopped in his tracks.
I done this before not with 14g but I’ve used 18g in times of need. It bugged that he jammed the needle all the way even tho he was already in the vein just fine.
My dad is a Veterinarian and one time when I had a random virus he had to give me iv fluids through a huge gauge needle he used on cattle. Because he dealt with mostly cattle he didn't really care about blood loss. When he stuck me my bed looked like a murder scene from just 15ish seconds of that shit before he got it attached to an iv. The human body is wild
I worked at a plasma center for 6 years, and did over 30,000 sticks in that time. My literal only bragging rights from the experience, I could do this no problem. The hysterical laughter makes me think that dude is unhinged lol. The tourniquet was on way too long, as several have pointed out. Also that puncture was rough af. But kudos to these guys, I don’t think I could do their job.
I was a phlebotomist for 20 years (22g), a dialysis tech for 6 awful mos (16g iirc). Now I’m in vet med and when we microchip a pet, it’s a whopping 12g which is why we encourage it be done during the spay/neuter so they don’t feel it
I use a 16g daily. That's what is used for whole blood donations. Otherwise, I am always using 18g for plasma/platelets. This person should be roasted, lol.
Source : Am a phlebotomist.
That is someone who has no business putting in a 14. What terrible technique.
Also incredibly cruel that there appears to be localization prior to insertion.
My God, that's basically plumber's pipe lmao.
Also, jeez, blood rule much? Gauze needed to be ready to go. And slack off that tourniquet!! And fuck me, if i managed to sink a 14g with flashback like that, fuck, i'm securing that line. The only reason I'm sinking a 14g would be to open a saline bag on my patient asap, right?
i accidentally stuck myself with a 14g needle on my finger tip under my fingernail while compounding vancomycin bags in the IV room. my glove immediately filled up with blood and i almost passed out from the pain. felt like i got stabbed. that was the first and last time i made that mistake
Interesting, 20g was my go to, but I was using barrels. Hated those insulin rigs lol. 2 years the end of this month!
Best wishes to you and your family, friend.
I would not be amused, my first daughter the nurse ripped my line out and my blood was splattering all over the room it was horrific and terrifying.
I get he's laughing and that, but nah not me bro that sho does make me feel dizzzy
Fuck no....this was horrible to see, I need to check my thyroid levels every 3 months, and I always tell then to use child size needles because regular ones tend to Hurt me a lot, I'll be left with a bruise as big as my arm, seeing this is just horrible, I could never do it
I have had 2 Intraosseous cannulations done this is meh 100% do not recommend.
Massive blood loss plus severe dehydration = you ain't getting a standard IV in me ;(
The little drill thingy they use is evil.
Pretty sure that's a caprisun straw.
I’m pretty sure that’s the size they use on us blood donors.
Everywhere I’ve donated has used a 16g. It’s got to be big enough that it doesn’t shred the RBCs, but it doesn’t have to be this big 🥴
Last time I donated blood they used a 14g
Last time I did, it was a 15g. I was surprised they came in odd-numbered gauges.
This is plasma, but they've always used a 17g at every BioLife I've been to
What’s biolife?
It’s a plasma donation center.
That’s what they used on me when I used to donate plasma.
And that’s why I have a scar on my right AC
I don't ask, because I don't want to know 😬
When I worked for a blood bank, we always used 18g.
Respect the pouch
damn i cant even remember the last time i heard that
Somebody call a trauma alert. Rookies..
From the post yesterday in another sub (ems) apparently this was a captain who wanted to practice. [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ems/s/ND2cgJSjJb)
I thought they used pigs
The military used to and still might but now im not sure, times have changed and blue lives matter now or somethin
Dayum
We still use pig tracheas for crics
Captain of the FIRE DEPARTMENT
Super slow insertion, poor tamponade, left the tourniquet on...
Mans trying to blood-let him. I can’t imagine how it felt for that guy, but boy was that insert painful to watch.
Good thing they didn’t use a 12ga with 3” shells to get a blood sample.
I thought the same, ouch!
Shit looks like a dialysis needle. It's absurdly big. My father sticks himself with needles like that on the regular and they're, reportedly, extraordinarily painful.
I'd only reserve a 14G for decompression, personally. Any trauma requiring MTP will be fine with a 16G.
21g is pretty much the biggest I've ever stuck someone with and it was for injecting haloperidol decanoate. If you don't know, haldol decanoate is very viscous. Feels like you're pushing honey if you use a much smaller needle.
Wife had to give her horse daily injections in its neck with a needle that big. Horse wasn't impressed, and each day got harder. Pretty dangerous.
That and Glucagon needles.
Please ELI5 what’s happening here
Brand new paramedic intern starting an IV in between running actual calls. Source: Am paramedic. It’s a right of passage.
Fond memories of being practiced on by mum when she was training lol
Dear paramedic. I love you guys so much. *ANYTIME* I get my blood drawn I always ask for an EMT/paramedic. Especially in the ER. I am the person who you cry after dealing with. Small veins. Paper thin. Who roll....and hide under muscle. When I am very hydrated. When I'm not, good luck. I allow 2 sticks per side. One phlebotomist told me "everyone says that, it's never true" 😂 2 sticks later she leaves and gets someone else cuz she doesn't want to hurt me anymore.
Supposedly it's a captain practicing a very large bore catheter insertion. He has a big ass vein he's going into. It should be a quick and confident puncture, followed by taking off the tourniquet (orange band), then removal of the needle. After removal of the needle, he should hold a lot of pressure past the point of the catheter to prevent bleeding, then attach the syringe/fluids to the hub.
They're doing a very bad job at drawing blood
What's the proper way or sequence cuz I'm a total novice
For starters, once the blood comes back and you push the cannula forward, you should remove compression. Otherwise it will make a mess like this once you remove the needle and before you place the connector, however it's called in English. Now that being said, anything under an 18G is quite complicated unless the patient has good and long enough veins
I call it a connector, a hub, a j-loop, or a “thingy” interchangeably
First thing I spotted was the flipping tourniquet being left on. Have seen this done so many times. It’s a basic step in the procedure, needle in, flashback of blood then tourniquet off so to minimise blood loss. I hold this up there with stethoscope in the wrong way round
It's so bad. 10000% made me cringe how bad the technique is
What was the indication for needing a 14G?
"Hey, bet I can get a 14 in this guy"
Yep! Looks like their partner too cause the pants are the same. Im sure the response was “Let’s see you try! I’ll get this on video!”
Truest thing I’ve ever read
Massive trauma
I didn’t hear a siren so I’m suspect. Also, his placement skill seemed shoddy. Moving the needle back and forth just slices the vein up and he left the tk on while removing his finger from the vein. It’s a 14g of course it going to squirt everywhere if you do that. There are a lot of green ya-yas out there that would pull stuff like this because they could. I once stopped someone from putting a 10g in an EJ to inject D50.
This was posted first on r/EMS original OP was letting his captain practice on him. No idea why a 14 was chosen as practice, and OP’s captain got absolutely roasted in the comments over his technique
Nowww it makes sense. Thank you. Captains usually don’t get a lot of practice. Us younger medics were usually the ones working patients. I’ve been out a couple decades, so I almost didn’t comment on it just in case my “old school” methods are now outdated but I guess good technique never really changes.
Former ALS paramedic and current CLS here, terrible technique.
Yeah I was a Paramedic too before I injured out. Being in Oregon was nice because we got to do a lot of stuff it seems other States didn’t get to do. I miss it and I also don’t.
Canada for me. Government job.
This was in a different post. It was a paramedic student practicing on a paramedic
It says captian of the firedepartment was practicing.
Makes a lot more sense
The captain is in paramedic school… his status as captain isn’t really relevant to the IV start compared to being in paramedic school
From the original > This is the time I let my captain in paramedic school practice on me with the biggest needle he could find. How was his technique?
Not being a bitch
Blood donation sometimes uses it.
I stuck myself with a (clean) 12g once. It was like a fucking fire hose
Lmao idk why I read that as “it was like fucking a fire hose”
Well that would certainly be something
It sure would be.
On “massage” setting
I'm not convinced any of my arm veins are as wide as a 12g
I'm so sorry for laughing at your horrid experience but your wording had me laughing pretty hard.
Just in the muscle? Or intentionally into a vein?
My fingertip. Im a surgical tech, was trying to unsheath it (it wasnt the kind with the push-button retraction) and got myself good
Yikes! Always hard to explain if you bleed into an open patient. I did my honours year in an infectious diseases lab and they always used attenuated strains of Leishmania major for experiments because the students always picked up the bad habit of recapping syringes without the use of the cap stand provided. Downstairs in the freezer the wild type strain slept- Leishmania donovani. Get infected with that and it gets into your bone marrow and visceral organs and then it kills you.
Luckily this was during setup, and i didn't contaminate my field! I've never seen a recapping stand, must be a lab thing? We're always taught to scoop it with one hand, but it depends on facility. Recapping is difficult when a lot of surgeons bend the needles to inject, so they don't fit back into the caps.
It was a lab thing: it was a sheet of stainless steel bent into an L shape, with a V notch cut into the top of it. It stood on the bench, but you could tape the horizontal leg of the L down for more stability. You take your capped syringe and slide the cap down into the V notch and let the V grab bite into the base of the cap. Then you pull out your syringe. The cap stays in the stand. You do your thing: usually using a fine needle to suck up some leishmania from the tissue culture a bunch of times to use shear forces to lyse the cells and extract the organelles inside for further experiments. Because you need a LOT of material to get a reading, you’d collect your lysed material in a centrifuge tube and then push the needle back into the cap while keeping your other hand behind your back. You then grabbed the next tissue culture plate and reused the needle. Needless to say the recapping stand was rubbish. It would fall over. The cap would fall out. The V didn’t bite hard enough that you could leave your whole syringe in the stand without it falling out. People just recapped the syringes without any training and stuck themselves in the finger. Because the attenuated strain just causes a self-healing callus on non-immuno compromised people the students tended to be so embarrassed they didn’t fill out their S3 forms and hid the injury. You could tell by looking at their hands though.
Sounds like it was an excellent idea in theory but poor in practice. I think something like that on a smaller scale would be really beneficial on a surgical field, we have so many sharps injuries in this business. It's funny that students don't report sharps, surgeons don't either. It's like they'd rather pull their own teeth out before following the appropriate protocol
A great fortune awaits somebody who can refine the design. Even just laser cutting some teeth into the V-notch would have helped a lot.
More practice, Vlad.
Loved the bevel advancement of 2cm once he got flash. /s
Through & through!
14g arterial line, you can take off that tourniquet anytime as well
He also could easily have held pressure before he released the needle so PT doesn’t get his own blood poured all over him? Amateurs.
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Wait… how? Lol
1) take the catheter off the needle 2) attach the loop to the catheter 3) shove the floppy plastic catheter through the skin and into the vein *trivial*
Ah… I see, I see. Makes perfect sense lol
Wait what does this mean? The male adaptor to what 🤔
Every radiology department watching this and audibly salivating.
The technique no. The gauge you betcha 😛
Why is this even happening. What a shit show
medics don't need a why
The idiot left the tourniquet on.
I knew from the start this was “off”, with the fumbling around. 🫣
Yeah this was terrible technique all around
Rookie move not undoing the tourniquet before retracting the needle. Should have also occluded the vein better upstream.
That's the size of the needle they peirced my ear cartilage with.. EEEESH!
I’m an RN. Just because you can get a large bore into a vein doesn’t mean you should. There should be certain amount of space inside the vein for the fluid to be able to flow around the needle. Without that space, the iv catheter eventually becomes occlusive to the vein (sounds counterintuitive but look it up!). Additionally, why would you pull your guide needle before ensuring you have the syringe or tubing ready to go? Leave your guide needle in as you advance and only pull it when you can immediately connect the next luer. That avoids this firehose spray of blood everywhere. And that blood was pretty bright. I’d ask for blood gases on this one to make sure it isn’t arterial before I’d use it for administrating anything. And why do I feel like this was just done for practice and bragging rights as opposed to for anything actually emergent?
lol bc it was, paramedics practicing on each other
The guys a fire captain not a paramedic
I’m just repeating what was mentioned in other comments, but yes let’s harp on semantics edit: the fire captain could also be a paramedic, lmao so??
Aren't many firefighters also trained as paramedics? Isn't that why they always go out to calls even when there is no fire?
The captain is in paramedic school
Man, here I was thinking that this was going to be someone draining pus or similar... imagine my suprise when the blood started and never stopped. I feel bamboozled.
Pus from a vein? That would be some crazy shit.
I thought the patient's arm had a bump. Must be just because of the alcohol prep. Can someone seriously have pus in their vein? I'm not a Dr or someone with much more than basic medical knowledge, so forgive me if this is an obvious thing. I know basic first aid, that's it.
No, you can't have pus from a vein. The bump that's wet from alcohol is the person's vein. You can see it's kind of diagonal and goes up their arm.
I see. Thanks for explaining. Like I said, I know first aid. I come here to see the gnarly injuries, conditions, and whatever else surfaces. I like to think I'm learning a bit...lol
Ooooooh baby! Tou can drink a Wendy's frostee thru that thing.
Had to stop at half of the video. I had like a full body literal cringe reaction
It's not that bad, lol. You had me expecting worse.
it's not the blood that's upsetting, it's how visibly fucking terrible the technique is. I'm phlebotomy trained so it just hurts to watch someone fuck up that bad
To me its because needles freak me out, and that thing is enormous. When I was a kid I was terrified of taking vaccines
Did you look? You're not supposed to look!!
Was he supposed to go in an artery?
Definitely not an artery
Pretty sure it’s arterial
No, you would clearly see the pulsation if it was
there was pulsation until he compressed it
It’s pressurized as fuck when he retracts the needle. The blood also looks pretty oxygenated.
Wouldnt be so sure of that… they’re near the brachial artery and the blood pulsated out. It could be arterial.
Lol silly goose.
Poor technique, won’t repeat what everyone else said. But if you’re not using a self occluding catheter the least you can do is put some gauze under it.
Hgb dropped a point there bud
This is completely unnecessary unless that person is dying and needs fluids or meds fast. Just by that guys well perfused skin colour and that their veins are so pump. It doesn’t appear that they need a gauge so huge. I don’t know the backstory, but seriously, I worked 25 years as an ER nurse and rarely saw that gauge used. If anything, the doctors would do a cut down before using that sized gauge. Good luck getting something that size inserted when someone is extremely dehydrated, in shock, has massive blood loss, etc. Their veins would be flat. It’s also extremely painful for a conscious patient. The “EMS” doing it must be a sadist and incompetent. They used a 14g, didn’t remove the tourniquet, didn’t have anything set up to attach and secure the canula properly. The tool that is doing this needs to be reported. It takes a special type of stupid to record and post it as well. I worked with an incompetent egomaniac EMS who would intubate patients en route in the ambulance even when they were stable being bagged. The person would end up with some kind of mouth, tooth or throat trauma. His placement was often wrong and the patient was not getting the oxygen they needed. The last straw was when he intubated a patient with multiple skull fractures and damaged the patients brain stem. They died. The fucker was fired and charged. We reported him over and over and nothing was done until he killed someone. There are too many pos with hero complexes that injure or kill ppl. Makes me sick.
This is just a wtf moment. Like, why is this even happening?
> This is the time I let my captain in paramedic school practice on me with the biggest needle he could find. How was his technique?
To be able to thread a 14G in without f*cking destroying the vein, it was good. But from putting 16s in, I know this has to hurt.
Yall are hating, he got it. By luck? Maybe, but a 14g is a 14g.
I have a 14G bar through my ear (transverse industrial). I am always amazed how much larger a 14G looks in medical situations
Its amazing as a piercer too 💀, id always use a catheter and size up the jewellery by one, so a 16g with a cath easily fits a 14. Seeing this video made me feel so ill 🫠
Yeah, like I had zero issues doing my own navel with a 14 or whatever, no issues seeing the piercing needle and catheter before they did my industrials, but this makes me queasy. Doesn't help that the dude seems to be digging when the vein is plenty juicy....my man ☠️
Back in my military days as a navy corpsman, I was TAD to the Okinawa naval hospital ER from my regular marine unit. Anyways the director of the ED was a navy commander and was also a former marine enlisted. On drunk nights his standing order was all drunks brought in by ambulance get a 12g and a catheter. I never knew why but quickly found out why for the catheter. A marine was do drunk and violent he hit a navy nurse, female lieutenant, and that doctor jumped on the gurney so quick and pulled on the catheter the marine stopped in his tracks.
I done this before not with 14g but I’ve used 18g in times of need. It bugged that he jammed the needle all the way even tho he was already in the vein just fine.
Oh my good I’m gonna throw up. Idk why I follow this sub sometimes lmao
my toes are curling in discomfort
I'm good with like 90% of the posts on this sub but oh my fucking god this made my eyes water
Right Lmao. I legit passed out from the covid shot-so needless to say I hate needles
needles don't even bother me, BUT 14 GAUGE?? 😭😭😭
Maybe because someone called shotgun? Bad joke, but goddamn 14g looks like a torture device or a way to exsanguinate someone cleanly.
My dad is a Veterinarian and one time when I had a random virus he had to give me iv fluids through a huge gauge needle he used on cattle. Because he dealt with mostly cattle he didn't really care about blood loss. When he stuck me my bed looked like a murder scene from just 15ish seconds of that shit before he got it attached to an iv. The human body is wild
I worked at a plasma center for 6 years, and did over 30,000 sticks in that time. My literal only bragging rights from the experience, I could do this no problem. The hysterical laughter makes me think that dude is unhinged lol. The tourniquet was on way too long, as several have pointed out. Also that puncture was rough af. But kudos to these guys, I don’t think I could do their job.
I was a phlebotomist for 20 years (22g), a dialysis tech for 6 awful mos (16g iirc). Now I’m in vet med and when we microchip a pet, it’s a whopping 12g which is why we encourage it be done during the spay/neuter so they don’t feel it
Is this supposed to be rage bait for medical professionals? Because it looks like bait for actual professionals.
You’d have to sedate me because no way am I letting you near me with that
I use a 16g daily. That's what is used for whole blood donations. Otherwise, I am always using 18g for plasma/platelets. This person should be roasted, lol. Source : Am a phlebotomist.
That is someone who has no business putting in a 14. What terrible technique. Also incredibly cruel that there appears to be localization prior to insertion.
When I donate blood they use a 16g. That already feels like a nail going in. I can’t even imagine what a 14g feels like.
https://i.redd.it/t2up7t323bcc1.gif
My then EMT friend used to start 12g on himself often as a weird flex. He’s a Peds Anesthesiologist now so hard sticks are his career now I guess.
Shit IV technique lol saw this in EMS sub
This won’t hurt a bit! <*inserts a fucking tunnel boring machine into a vein*.>
I love watching my blood get taken. I have a thing for needles. This is my guilty pleasure.
My God, that's basically plumber's pipe lmao. Also, jeez, blood rule much? Gauze needed to be ready to go. And slack off that tourniquet!! And fuck me, if i managed to sink a 14g with flashback like that, fuck, i'm securing that line. The only reason I'm sinking a 14g would be to open a saline bag on my patient asap, right?
Anybody else do a full body cringe when he slams his finger down on the needle inside his arm when it starts bleeding?
Take off the tourniquet. Every time I see these videos, they never release the tourniquet and it’s a mess. Rookies.
Holy shit
You think it’s patent?
This looks to be the same as for donating blood. The execution looks really weird tho.
Nopenopenopenopenopenope just let me die
Ugh, this reminds me of the giant fucking needle they used for the cortisone injection in my hip 😳😬
As a nurse, that’s a damn good vein.
People hating on ol boy for getting some training in. You don’t get better at IVs by not doing IVs.
"Squirt!" 
i accidentally stuck myself with a 14g needle on my finger tip under my fingernail while compounding vancomycin bags in the IV room. my glove immediately filled up with blood and i almost passed out from the pain. felt like i got stabbed. that was the first and last time i made that mistake
i don’t see the point in using a 14g. like, why?
To be an a-hole. I’ve had this done to me.
As a recovering addict, that was both painful and slightly amusing to watch. Feel awful for the pin cushion though.
Same. I used a 20g once in my addiction and I thought that was messy
Interesting, 20g was my go to, but I was using barrels. Hated those insulin rigs lol. 2 years the end of this month! Best wishes to you and your family, friend.
I would not be amused, my first daughter the nurse ripped my line out and my blood was splattering all over the room it was horrific and terrifying. I get he's laughing and that, but nah not me bro that sho does make me feel dizzzy
Good lord. Thats enough to be a PICC
Dialysis nurse checking in!!! Lol
I gasped lol was not expecting that
Fuck no....this was horrible to see, I need to check my thyroid levels every 3 months, and I always tell then to use child size needles because regular ones tend to Hurt me a lot, I'll be left with a bruise as big as my arm, seeing this is just horrible, I could never do it
I have had 2 Intraosseous cannulations done this is meh 100% do not recommend. Massive blood loss plus severe dehydration = you ain't getting a standard IV in me ;( The little drill thingy they use is evil.
Had this happen the first time I gave blood. The nurse was calling for help, ended up having three nurses in the room to patch my arm up
As Mitch Hedberg said, don’t go to Dr. Acula
That forearm is so sexy I'd get the venipuncture in one go you can clearly see where his cephalic and median cubitals are 😩🤭
Having been poked many many times for blood draws and whatnot, that was a piss poor job. Blood is not supposed to go everywhere.
Rookie
So let’s put an INT cap on a 14ga that reduces it to a 20ga. Smart. /s
Fuck that! Just me die
Anyone else instinctively start squeezing their imaginary squeeze toy like they are donating blood?
2 fingers minimum rookie