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In the adding-insult-to-injury department, being pricked multiple times with a needle while a nurse tries in vain to find a vein ranks pretty high. The problem can be acute with infants and the obese.
Jim Larsen, a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was in the hospital once and required several blood tests. All the poking caused swelling and inflammation in his arms, which made it increasingly difficult for nurses to find his veins.
“It often took seven or eight tries,” Larsen recalls. “It wasn’t long before I felt like a pin cushion.” (MORE)
Information | TheFourEyes May 15, 2007
