Butterfly needle, reasonably large AC veins, just quick flick and it’s in. I don’t think it’s necessarily a new “technique” this is just repetition with that same device a million times and the right patient anatomy for this video. Would like to see this work on dehydrated or heavily calcified/atherosclerotic patients, or people without obvious typical anatomy, but it won’t. I hated butterfly needles, there was almost never a perfect scenario for them outside of maybe peds and high volume draws out of a hand vein.
If it wasn’t clear, I’m saying this isn’t repeatable and trainable, this is one person who constantly uses butterfly needles, probably outpatient, busy facility, and they’ve been doing this a long time. It’s the phlebotomy equivalent of quick solving a rubics cube, or close up card magic. Muscle memory and a ton of practice. It’s not some special technique you’re just going to pick up with a YouTube video, even if she explained it.
If it’s not trainable then it should not be done. We can’t have techniques out there that can not broken down into trainable steps. For a good reason of maintaining the health of the person having the blood taken, the nurse and the end recipient of the blood. There are procedures for this task for reasons.
It is trainable. Most western medical practitioners feel like it is not worth their time to master such a skill. There are training videos out there. It involves basically spending hundreds if nothing thousands of hours of flicking a needle into a practice target over and over until it becomes a skilled muscle memory.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25
Butterfly needle, reasonably large AC veins, just quick flick and it’s in. I don’t think it’s necessarily a new “technique” this is just repetition with that same device a million times and the right patient anatomy for this video. Would like to see this work on dehydrated or heavily calcified/atherosclerotic patients, or people without obvious typical anatomy, but it won’t. I hated butterfly needles, there was almost never a perfect scenario for them outside of maybe peds and high volume draws out of a hand vein.