Block and attack. This analogy about the football technique is being suggested to health professionals around the world. In this championship, the common opponent is Covid-19.
Among the specialists, the first consensus is that peripheral access is the main means of administering treatment. The second recommendation is that the more standardized the puncture and maintenance routines of this catheter are, the safer the patient will be and the lower the risk of complications such as thrombosis and phlebitis, for example.
Another tool that is being recommended and validated by several studies is the use of ultrasound to guide peripheral puncture. This new randomized study: Handheld ultrasound for difficult peripheral intravenous access, published on the 28th, conducted by the author Acuña, J. et al (2020), in Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, proved that there was efficiency and good performance in the punctures performed with the ultrasound device.
Given this scenario, it is essential that professionals know the tools available on the market that are appropriate to their routines and that provide the correct execution of this technique, which is recognized as an essential resource to support professionals in improving the results of obtaining venous access peripheral.
The ivKIT Guided Puncture, for example, fully meets the requirements of practicality, agility and safety, as it gathers the necessary materials in a single package, totally sterile: two pairs of gloves, one for skin antisepsis and the other for puncture, field, water-soluble conductive gel, probe protector, disposable tourniquet, transparent cover and skin protector, to prevent skin lesions.
