Why Is Blood Drawn From Veins And Not From Arteries?

Experts use veins to draw blood for blood testing, blood donation, and more because the structure and position of veins make it easier to draw blood out of as compared to arteries. It may also be dangerous to draw blood from arteries.

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[AdvancedKrizalid]

One mistake in your video is how you show the disinfection process with the coton.
You do the motion once, not several times. Doing it several times is a common rookie mistake and it just makes you clean the area with the first sweep only to reaply the germs on that same area with the second motion. Alcoohol helps but if you reapply the same coton on the same area you only clean something with something contaminated.
It's a mistake that makes nurse students fail their practical exams instantly.
You should at least put a small text to point out the error.

[TradBarbie]

My veins kept collapsing in the BICU so they tried to get an artery to do a pick line... it hurt *so effing bad.* Then I look up and my blood is shooting out at my pulse rate, about three feet out of my pelvis. I was then told "He was a student and he wasn't able to get it. We're bringing in someone else to do it". I told them there is no way in hell I'm going through that again. They're going to have to find another vein.

[BoundEarth]

Had a few medics hit the artery somehow on training. Funny seeing blood rocket into a saline bag. The instructor told em to keep going and squeeze the bag. Not sure how they train the medics bow but they were great at teaching improvising.

[Iamapooh]

Phlebotomist here. Just want to mention that there are cases where we need to draw arterial blood. Veins are definitely the most common but yeah we do still prick arteries

[karimah]

It’s painful like hell getting blood from an artery. Arteries are deeper than veins which is why they are painful. I had to get blood drawn from an artery for them to get a blood gas test.

[nurserichigaete]

In cases of respiratory failure, we need to see arterial blood samples to analize the arterial gases…

[kittygaillot]

I have had arterial blood gases done quite a few times……… Not a very pleasant procedure. And when I went to the emergency room recently, they had to do an ultrasound just to establish an IV line, and my blood was so thick.

[kingindubitably]

How about in a situation where you have hemophobia. How to overcome this situation. I wanted to get a blood test but i just can't stand it to see or hear or even think about blood related thing.

[ooommm]

I know blood can totally been drawn from arteries, having worked as an emergency and cardiovascular registered nurse. Often, this is done to check blood gas, lactic acid, & carbon monoxide levels from peripheral arterires and from the pulmonary artery for central blood gas levels like in heart surgery.

[prathibharaghavendra]

I have respiratory problem from 25 years. From 5years they r doing ABG test. From one year my artery blood is dark n thick .pls i want reason can you help i am suffering lot from brocotitis n breathing problem pls help me

[AbhayRajMamgain]

Animation getting better and better😀😀






Keep it up:-)

[JohnDought]

But what about the radial artery this one is close.

[PelczarTomasz]

Informations within the body like i.e. Intel within motherboard by Asus etc...

[randomperson]

My thing is i'm not even scared of needles, i can take vaccines just fine
But most of my blood test experiences were so bad that now i just panic when i need to have one (one of the bad ones happening when i was a small child also didn't help)

Life is often disappointing

[rrt]

Can you use a Vacutainer with arterial puncture?

[JaadeLuvzYooh]

Don’t forget to remove the tube from the needle before pulling the needle out of the arm. 🙂

[cranium]

I'm really feeling tired and sleepy watching blood related videos

[godwinvincent]

My veins are paining from 3 days now after they took my blood for sampling,
Just wanted to know how many days it will take to be fine ?

[i_sometimes_leave_comments]

Why is the TQ removed *before* the needle?

[marypoole]

I have had arterial blood many times because of blood clots !!