Vein

punctured a vein. Usually phlebotomist tend to draw from the cephalic and basilic veins in the antecubital area. Ways that you can collect blood from the vein is by using a syringe and using a needle with a vacutainer. The vacutainer is when you have a needle and another needle with rubber. The vacutainer gets hooked up to the area with the rubber needle. This method is prefered when you need to collect blood for more than one tube. Apply the tourniquet so that you can see the veins more clearly…

Vascular access: Vascular access has a double lumen catheter located in the subclavian vein and artery in place. The caregiver removes the soiled dressing and assesses the site for infection. Once that 's completed the caregiver sterilizes it with a choraprep swab. The tubes are connected and the caregiver aspirates each port, then is flushed…

The heart’s role for the entire body is not only limited to pumping blood. It also needs its own blood supply to be able to perform its several functions. The process of the heart managing its own blood supply is known as coronary circulation. The walls situated in the heart have systemic blood vessels. These exist to meet the needs of the heart for blood supply. Oxygenated blood is brought to the myocardium via the left and right coronary arteries. They are also responsible for bringing the…

Clinical Paper for Off-Sight Observation Experience: Special Procedures Madison Munday University of North Dakota Clinical Paper for Off-Sight Observation Experience: Special Procedures For my off-sight observation experience, I was assigned to shadow at Special Procedures. I had the opportunity to learn about many different conditions and procedural techniques, so it was an excellent contribution to my nursing education. At Special Procedures, I was able to follow three patients.…

I chose to take a brief look at coronary procedures involving grafts. To answer the question first we need to understand some of the differences in veins and arteries. The arteries in the systemic system, deliver oxygenated blood from the heart, in a high pressure low volume stream to the capillaries found throughout the body. The systemic veins carry the deoxygenated blood from the capillary beds in a low pressure, high volume, valve controlled flow, back to the heart. From there, the heart…

able to distinguish four adaptations that fetal hearts undergo while in utero. First, we must understand that the fetus receives all blood and nutrients from the parental placenta. The fetus receives this blood from the placenta through the umbilical vein. This is the first adaptation that we see in the fetal cardiovascular circulatory system. While the fetal umbilical cord provides the oxygen-rich blood to the fetus there is an opening that branches off the umbilical cord called the ductus…

subclavian vein. The other trunk is called the thoracic duct and drains the remaining part of the fluid into the left subclavian vein. The lymph is transported along the system of vessels by muscle contractions and the valves prevent the lymph from flowing backward. The vessels are punctuated at small intervals which are called lymph nodes and these remove foreign materials like infectious microorganisms from the lymph filtering through…

heart from all over the body. The right side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs, where the blood picks up oxygen. The oxygen-rich blood then flows to the left side of the heart through blood vessels (pulmonary veins) and back out to the body. If your child has TAPVR, the pulmonary veins return all the oxygen-rich blood to the right side of the heart instead. The oxygen-rich blood mixes with the returning oxygen-poor blood and passes through a hole between the right side of the heart and the…

begin to function abnormally, it can throw off the body's entire homeostasis, or steady state. The cardiovascular systems distributes oxygen rich blood from the lungs to all of the body's organs and tissues by its heart pump and many arteries and veins. Cells throughout absorb what oxygen and nutrients are needed and then dispose of any carbon dioxide and waste which then flow back to the heart's right chambers and on to the lungs to be exchanged for more oxygen. As you inhale, air passes…

Obstructive Shock Shock is typically described as blood flow that is inadequate to meet the oxygen concentration for normal functioning of the body tissues. Obstructive shock in this case results from mechanical obstruction of the left ventricle stopping the flow of blood out of the heart. With the limited blood flow, the tissues results in anaerobic metabolism since there is limited supply of oxygen. The anaerobic respiration produces a lot of carbon dioxide together with the inherent…