A new device being tried by the Red Cross (in Australia) could see an end to manually locating hard-to-find veins. The portable, handheld Vein Visualisation Scanner can find the veins under the patients skin and project a map onto the surface of the hand, allowing nurses to find veins quickly and easily. Vein Visualisation technology uses near-infrared technology, to project an image of the vein onto the skin. Veins have a lot of deoxygenated haemoglobin, that absorbs near infrared light. This device is able to use this information to project an image...
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 01:07:58 +0000
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