Kochi-based Medical Company has come out with a device to identify veins easily for intravenous treatment and at a cost lower than in the global market. The device named was launched on Friday and is expected to make intravenous treatment easier and affordable for patients and hospitals. There are several issues with identifying veins for injecting medicines or drawing blood samples which get complicated if the vein is that of a child, an obese or aged person or the languid vein of a chemotherapy patient or in a burn patient or patient in ICU with shock or on dialysis.
Such situations which warrant repeated slapping, pressing, warming and palpating the veins with repeated jabs are often clumsy and painful, with even experienced nurses and anaesthetists finding it difficult to trace some veins, a statement said. The MD and chairman of the company, both of who are biomedical engineers,…
