How to tie the needle for saline drip

Site: veins of the limbs, usually injected in the back of the hand, easy to fix, but also easy to walk. If the number of injections and lead to flat blood vessels is not easy to find, in the foot injection.

Use: tourniquet, sterilized cotton, bandage, infusion set.

Steps: first disinfect the mouth of the bottle, hanging upside down on the infusion frame, the infusion device into the bottle, exhaust although the air inside, to find the vein, in the injection site about 3 to 5cm above the tie tourniquet (such as the back of the hand, let the patient clenched fists, so that the blood vessels are obvious and easy to find), and then disinfected to be injected, will be inserted into the needle, to see the blood back, immediately loosen the tourniquet, will be put on the tip of the needle to the tip of the cotton, to the fixed with bandages, and then the rest of the bandages to fix the infusion. With the rest of the bandage fixed infusion tube, adjust the drip rate of the liquid can be. Generally 30-40 drops a minute is appropriate. The speed depends on the efficacy of the drug.

Precautions: the infusion device to exhaust the air, inserted into the blood vessels is not easy to be too deep, inserted and so on for two or three minutes to see if they are tied to see whether the bulging liquid, if the drums need to be dialed out for a place to re-tie.