Summary, The conclusion as to whether the leg immobilizer was purchased for the heart catherization lab was, yes. The leg immobilizer does reduce the amount of personnel costs. These costs are the largest part of most operating budgets for organizations (Finkler, Jones, & Kovner, (2013). For those that have not worked in a pediatric heart catherization lab, the radial artery is too small to access. In fact, sometimes to obtain access, it takes several hours because the vessels are so small. Dumond, Da Cruz, Friesen, and Almodovar (2012) wrote that there is a loss of pedal pulse in neonates and infants that is directly related to the length of time of cardiac catheterization and is not as often when 2.5-F, 5-cm polyethylene catheters are
