Some people's veins are hard to find due to factors like dehydration, stress, vein depth, or external conditions.

Potential cannulation sites are the hand, the antecubital veins of the forearm, and the basilic, cephalic, and brachial veins of the upper arm.

This is seventeen and three-tenths times that of antecubital-vein blood and one and nine-tenths times that of inferior-vena-cava blood collected during the diurnal study from the same patients.

For PRP, which cost Soles around $3,800, Villella drew several vials of blood from the antecubital vein (the crook of one’s elbow) and extracted the plasma with a centrifuge — a specialized ...

I have a confession to make. I was at a sporting event recently and a friend of mine introduced me to someone. I shook the man’s hand – but when I reached out to shake his hand, that there is ...

Q: I hate getting my blood drawn. It’s always hard to find my veins. Are there any ways to make it less awful? A: Needles can hurt and having to be poked multiple times to find the vein is a ...

In newborns, cubital veins and the saphenous vein are also frequently used for insertion of peripherally inserted central catheters.

Phlebotomy is the drawing of blood, a phlebotomist is someone with special training to do. However, in many countries other healthcare professionals are also capable of drawing blood (e.g. doctors ...

Arteries better than veins for liquid cancer biopsies Researchers said taking blood from arteries may be more inconvenient to process but the increased accuracy may be worth the effort.