Friday 2/4/22
Nurses from the University of Mobile came to teach our Bio-Med class how to put in and use an IV and the normal sounds of hearts and lungs.
The IV Station
In the Iv station, we were taught how to properly put in an IV and how it ultimately worked. For the demonstration, they used a fake arm with blood veins that were filled with fake blood from the tube you can see on the right. The "blood" was similar to red Kool-aid.
The first thing he taught us was how to tie the tourniquet. Instead of making a bow, you should only halfway pull it. This was more time-efficient and made it easier to remove.
When inserting the IV, you must first pick a vein. Once you have done that, look at the needle and make sure the bevel facing upwards. Then insert the needle at around a 15-degree angle while holding the hub or the wings. After inserting the needle, you must make sure that you are in the vein, otherwise, the treatment you are injecting will go into the tissue. Finally, slowly pull the base of the needle out, while leaving the catheter in. Once we were all sure we understood what to do, she let us try it out.
<- To the left, you will see a photo of Camille Able doing her first IV.
The Auscultation Station
This was the auscultation dummy
At this station, we were shown how different medical conditions affect the sounds of the heart and lungs. How a normal Lub-Dub could change to a rasping or whooshing or how a lung could sound like a wheeze, cackling, or rhonchi.
On the dummy, we placed the stethoscope on any heart to hear sounds of the heart, or an L to hear lung sounds.
We had to use a special stethoscope that the nurses brought
to hear the specific sounds. The sounds were controlled by a remote.
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