VeinViewer Could Help Nurses Find Veins for IVs
 GE's BloggingNEXT blog reports on a new technology called Veinviewer that makes it easy to view the structure of a person's veins.
This isn't a GE product - but it's fascinating. Anyone who's ever gotten an IV knows how unpleasant the process can be. The Veinviewer is fast (no waiting for a scan) and uses simple near-infrared light, a digital video camera, and a digital video projector (using DLP technology from Texas Instruments) to project onto your skin an image of the vein structure below. It's tough to overstate how simple and easy this is.
Here is Luminetx description of its VeinViewer technology.
The VeinViewer by Luminetx uses a combination of near-infrared light and patented technologies to image vascular structures, thus allowing physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to clearly see accessible vasculature (or lack thereof) in real time, directly on the surface of the skin.
Hopefully, this technology will be used in hospitals and it will help to reduce the number of unsuccessful sticks patients have to suffer through before a vein is found for the IV.
Posted on September 29, 2006
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