How to Start an IV - Live Demo

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  • Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
  • This video takes you through the steps to start an intravenous catheter (IV). IVs are a common medical procedure that allow healthcare providers to administer medications directly into the vein.
    Disclaimer: this video is not medical training and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Only perform an IV if you are trained and authorized to do so. Always follow local, state and national laws and standards.
    00:00 Intro
    00:10 Background
    00:44 Supplies
    02:52 Anatomy of an IV catheter
    05:58 Live IV Start
    14:45 Taking an IV out

КОМЕНТАРІ • 113

  • @dansunsomeil
    @dansunsomeil 4 дні тому +3

    I just got into nursing school and from what I’ve heard most nursing programs are seriously lacking in IV training, which is making me nervous. This was super helpful!

  • @cade8986
    @cade8986 2 місяці тому +269

    Was hoping this would be an April fools video where you missed the vein like 5 times and gave up, but then said “well you get the idea” and just ended the video 😂

    • @thekasperrr
      @thekasperrr 2 місяці тому +12

      That would've been amazing. That was totally my first time tryna start an IV. I missed like 5 times in a row. And then I didn't do it for like 3 weeks and got it first try.

    • @PrepMedic
      @PrepMedic  2 місяці тому +95

      Like what I do in real life? 🤣 *never ask a flight medic to start your IV*

    • @cade8986
      @cade8986 2 місяці тому

      @@w.c.6678that’s my favorite vein to go for, personally.

    • @Mockturtlesoup1
      @Mockturtlesoup1 2 місяці тому +1

      @@w.c.6678 what's an "AC"? And what we're you referring to about the elbow?

    • @ThumperG
      @ThumperG 2 місяці тому

      @@w.c.6678everything he said still applies even if it were right in the middle of the crook of your arm when bent.

  • @topazsmith2595
    @topazsmith2595 Місяць тому +21

    From a RN of 20 years this is the best video I have seen for an IV start.

    • @PsychNurse.
      @PsychNurse. 14 днів тому +1

      You're a hero. Thanks 👍

  • @Beetmonster
    @Beetmonster 2 місяці тому +39

    FORTUNATELY I have over ten years clean today, but watching this video made me laugh at several points. I became an IV expert without any formal education. I wish I could've watched this video in my using days, rather than learning from trial & error. 🤣

  • @pilot7279
    @pilot7279 2 місяці тому +59

    Once Again Thanks Brian For Being a Champ and Teaching Medical Prof. for Years to Come!

  • @dr.gopnik5221
    @dr.gopnik5221 2 місяці тому +54

    Also about the last part of removing the IV - Make sure to apply pressure to the gauze for atleast 30-60 seconds. Especially in older patients with blood thinners this may get very messy.

    • @grantpeterson2493
      @grantpeterson2493 2 місяці тому +2

      Or aspirin lol

    • @lobopatriot1276
      @lobopatriot1276 2 місяці тому +2

      OMG Yes! I Remember My First Pt On Floor Clinicals Was On Blood Thinners-Told Me Straight Up. Still, Being New I Had No Idea It Could Get Messy

  • @davidhottenstine6497
    @davidhottenstine6497 2 місяці тому +12

    As a retired Combat Medic and Cetified Instructor, I think you did an excellent job!

  • @Nate-ro8nk
    @Nate-ro8nk 2 місяці тому +42

    I like this Live demo thing you got going. Whatever your paying Brian it's not enough. Maybe in the Next episode - "Starting an EZ-IO on a live patient" . LOL. Good job 👏

    • @PrepMedic
      @PrepMedic  2 місяці тому +24

      Ha! Already asked him and he said hell no.

    • @physiofan500
      @physiofan500 2 місяці тому +2

      What about sync cardioversion? I'll gladly volunteer some of my equipment

    • @nickd.949
      @nickd.949 2 місяці тому +4

      @@PrepMedicI’m sure there’s a bored marine somewhere that would accept 50 bucks to be an io dummy. (Just don’t tell him how bad it hurts)

    • @sbreheny
      @sbreheny 2 місяці тому +3

      There are some YT videos of IO starts on volunteers!

    • @tshds5826
      @tshds5826 2 місяці тому +7

      Googling an EZ IO made me rethink my EMS career dream. Thank you for saving me Nate.

  • @HW-fj6ip
    @HW-fj6ip 2 місяці тому +7

    I would suggest that before you flush the saline, to instead draw back. the blood return is the confirmation that's in, not the easy flush forward. Thank you for the demo.

  • @matthewellisor5835
    @matthewellisor5835 2 місяці тому +5

    Brian, the Most Valuable Patient.

  • @michaelmcdonald6334
    @michaelmcdonald6334 2 місяці тому +6

    I am enjoying your videos. I was a paramedic in 1975. I was trained by Vietnam medics. They ruled! We did different techniques back them from pushing bicarb , rotating tourniquets for left vetricular heart failure. And trauma trousers. Emergency was my favorite show lol. I am sure old protocols can still work. Even using an old Robert Shaw demand valve. lol

    • @minutemanmedic4143
      @minutemanmedic4143 15 днів тому

      While you guys absolutely set the path for us in the modern day, theres a reason we changed the protocols lol

  • @joaquin-jacknava2696
    @joaquin-jacknava2696 2 місяці тому +7

    Thank you for the live demo.

  • @RMSVA
    @RMSVA 2 місяці тому

    This is such an upgrade from your previous video! Thank you for posting!

  • @HostileTakeover2
    @HostileTakeover2 2 місяці тому +1

    Excellent demo and explanation. Thank you.

  • @l5mtf393
    @l5mtf393 2 місяці тому +3

    Interesting!
    I like how it's a bit different in US and Europe too - here, we mostly use what I like to call "Braun-pattern" or "winged" IVs (without that extra tube necessary, and with two little wings on each side). The technique is the same, but the IV is secured by a special non-transparent adhesive dressing that kinda looks like pants. (that's why we call it "iv pants"- a plaster with a cutout halfway through, when you put it over the IV, each "pant" secures it's side of little wing)
    The fluids and meds are injected directly into the IV, which is covered with a luer-lock screw cap. Green (18G) size is also regarded as most universal, since it has both the high flow rate, and can also be used for plasma transfusion if necessary.

  • @Mobus_
    @Mobus_ 2 місяці тому +7

    This has been long needed!

    • @PrepMedic
      @PrepMedic  2 місяці тому +8

      Yeah, it was time for an updated video. My old one was almost 5 years ago 😂

  • @GospelOutside
    @GospelOutside 2 місяці тому +5

    Love your channel! Blessings to you!

  • @johne1653
    @johne1653 2 місяці тому +1

    Sam Thanks for the real demo's.

  • @Doc_Egan
    @Doc_Egan 2 місяці тому

    Great demo!

  • @Faith-rx3qv
    @Faith-rx3qv 2 місяці тому +2

    I love the how to videos!

  • @fyreflyte9066
    @fyreflyte9066 2 місяці тому

    awesome demo and video. these are great teaching vids for people... now i just need someone to let me try it out on

  • @charlesjeffery3998
    @charlesjeffery3998 Місяць тому

    I absolutely love your channel, and your methods of teaching, and I sent so many students to your channel to learn so much valuable stuff, thanks a lot, I like to subscribe immediately😅

  • @javaslapnervedjosh1877
    @javaslapnervedjosh1877 2 місяці тому +2

    thank you very much

  • @TrexBootsActual
    @TrexBootsActual 2 місяці тому +2

    My dad used to use 14s and 16s back in the late 70s. Largest he ever used was a 12 gauge needle on a GSW patient.

  • @damascuscervantes2874
    @damascuscervantes2874 2 місяці тому +1

    Hey man. I'm in EMT advanced school right now and have been struggling to get I.V.'s. appreciate the reminder and tips.

  • @ELOAAMinistries
    @ELOAAMinistries 2 місяці тому +4

    Cool beans dude! Thanks much! Blessings and Grace!

  • @thisiconisactuallygoofysfa9960
    @thisiconisactuallygoofysfa9960 2 місяці тому +9

    Instructions unclear: I threw up on the patient

  • @jamesa7506
    @jamesa7506 2 місяці тому +2

    Great video sir and well done to your friend for his participation in making these "how to" videos. ✝️🇺🇸👍

  • @NMFF415
    @NMFF415 2 місяці тому

    Good stuff. THanks

  • @thepracticalrifleman
    @thepracticalrifleman 2 місяці тому +4

    Foam hand sanitizer will help take off tegaderm.

  • @logancowie8126
    @logancowie8126 2 місяці тому +16

    Next up: How to start an IO - Live Demo

  • @noescapefromreality1749
    @noescapefromreality1749 2 місяці тому +1

    Great stuff as always Sam! Would hate to think what running an IV as a flight medic or in non-permissive environment is like 😅 Really cool.

  • @darkgiggler
    @darkgiggler 11 днів тому

    Excellent, thank you. You are a great teacher, can you mention the names of the different parts in your description? Is it called pig tail or is it J tube?

  • @OfficialTsunami
    @OfficialTsunami 2 місяці тому

    Hey brother, love your videos. I just got a job working on a critical care transport unit for neos and peds. Can you try and make some videos tailored for the younger pts. Thanks 🤞🏾!

  • @nicholas2827
    @nicholas2827 Місяць тому +1

    5 year FMF Corpsman. Havnt done it in several years. Never assume your skills are non perishable. I also might anchor that second strip of tape not on top of the first strip of tape as Iv seen a snag pull on the first spot creating a possible issue in the flow or un necessary discomfort. Personal preference.

  • @mariailoseo8875
    @mariailoseo8875 2 місяці тому

    Thank You Brian. More demo days with Sam the PREPMEDIC.
    Greetings From Mascot SYDNEY an Manila PHI;IPPINES
    APRIL 2024 MABUHAY!

  • @therealtifflen
    @therealtifflen 2 місяці тому

    Basket weave technique for the CHG is best practice

  • @kingfish4575
    @kingfish4575 2 місяці тому +1

    Doubt i could ever do this, but was always curious how.

  • @cheryldahl9192
    @cheryldahl9192 2 місяці тому +3

    I always thought the needle was left in the arm. But it's a soft thingy🤣

  • @Forward_Unto_Dawn
    @Forward_Unto_Dawn Місяць тому

    Current Navy Hospital Corpsman - we were taught to pull back on the flush a little bit to make sure blood entered the tube and then push the saline in.

    • @PrepMedic
      @PrepMedic  Місяць тому +1

      The ability to draw off an IV is confirmation that it’s in but the inability to do so doesn’t mean it’s not in, so I don’t usually concern myself with that step.

    • @Forward_Unto_Dawn
      @Forward_Unto_Dawn Місяць тому

      @@PrepMedic yeah, we were most recently being taught by nurses. We actually didn't do that step in Corps school but I guess it's more of a hospital clinical setting thing

  • @johne1653
    @johne1653 2 місяці тому +4

    Ah the fun of starting IV's. One can only wish that patients have nice veins and more importantly are cooperative! A well lit ER exam room beats a the back of an ambulance. Or dealing with an entrapped patient. As a wise medic once related....any port in a storm.

    • @lobopatriot1276
      @lobopatriot1276 2 місяці тому +1

      And A Rite Of Passage, Sticking An 18G, Getting Meds Ready, All While Your Basic is Bouncing The Truth To Hell And Back.

    • @lobopatriot1276
      @lobopatriot1276 2 місяці тому +1

      Truck 🚑

    • @johne1653
      @johne1653 2 місяці тому +1

      I learned in day that you wanted large bore IV's and using 14/16 g was the norm. And, the those days are in the rear view mirror. EJ's were fun! Not that you get to practice them....those are pure OJT. Or starting an IV in a cardiac arrest patient.
      The first time the RN came to medic class to practice IV starts....it looked like a battlefield! OMG we were awful! Then they sent us to the Outpatient lab at the clinic for 16 hrs of clinical. God only knows how many people I stuck drawing blood for two shifts.
      The patients with diseases processes that sacrifice their their veins...like chemo are tough sticks. Now we live in the day of the EZ IO if you really need access. Patients with access devices like Port A Caths or PICC lines. And, since the change in administering D50 IV Plus to infusing it via piggy back smaller IV's work. When I was we lad....I watched a medic push D50 direct venipuncture. Infiltrating D50 is not good. And, hospital patients getting Potassium....ouch! Some facilities suggest that goes via a Central Line.

  • @phoebewang4199
    @phoebewang4199 7 днів тому

    You have to apply tourniquet first to allow blood fill the vein, then prepare all your IV supplies.

  • @I25M
    @I25M 2 місяці тому

    I'm seeing ads in my inbox for a newly fda approved clot powder called BleedStop. Can you do a video or a short on it to fill in the community if it's trustworthy or not?

  • @hectorsmolero1286
    @hectorsmolero1286 Місяць тому

    10/10

  • @allegraadams3037
    @allegraadams3037 2 місяці тому

    Can you do a video digging into your ski patrol career?

  • @JoeNetland
    @JoeNetland 2 місяці тому

    Hey man! Great demonstration! What's the name of the brand of i.v. cath you're using in this video? At first glance it looks way more practical than the ones I'm used with.

    • @luke16anders
      @luke16anders 2 місяці тому

      It looks like a BD Insyte. I use those as well, but I use one that auto-tamponades.

  • @esthermartin8923
    @esthermartin8923 Місяць тому +1

    I am having a hard time with IV....they blow. Everyone says it takes practice, but if my technique is wrong...then I'll never learn correctly.

  • @Donar315
    @Donar315 2 місяці тому

    It's interesting to see, how different the system in the US works. Of course the principle is the same, but we nearly always connect a 500 ml saline, as our catheter has a port with a cap for medication directly built into it. This way, we don't have to wipe it everytime - that must be a pain in the ass when you have to give another shot because you started with a too low dose. And i've never seen a single use tourniquet, we mostly use a multiuse one.
    Other than that: good Explaination for everybody who never started an iV before.
    Btw - having too good vains while working in the medical field can really suck - everyone wants to start an iV on you. Speaking of experience^^

  • @stupidstickmen84
    @stupidstickmen84 24 дні тому

    Great video, just missed the blood return 😅 other than that too, loosen the J loop cap

  • @waschte123
    @waschte123 2 місяці тому

    One thing i always wondered is why the Cannulas in the US are so different from the ones used in Europe.. The us ones are really just the plastic tube and a connector, the European ones e.g. Have a port for syringes to connect to and "wings" to make it easier to fixate them.. 🤔

  • @namesecondname4548
    @namesecondname4548 27 днів тому

    Phlebotomist in me:
    "Yay, new toys!!!!"

  • @savagesmite1911
    @savagesmite1911 2 місяці тому

    what is a needle stick? like when it breaks?

  • @shannoncrook4712
    @shannoncrook4712 2 місяці тому

    Poor Brian! Last week was Npa insertion

  • @meidamx
    @meidamx 2 місяці тому +2

    Get some.

  • @germanshepparddogsandthenu5653
    @germanshepparddogsandthenu5653 Місяць тому

    stablize while inserting and dont leave tournequiet on so long or vien can blow

  • @ineedadebuff1725
    @ineedadebuff1725 Місяць тому

    Bro showed emotion really only when the tape got removed

  • @ALLpurpose85
    @ALLpurpose85 Місяць тому

    I’m a medic now

  • @krazeekalvin
    @krazeekalvin 2 місяці тому +1

    Plenty of practice on hungover Marines

  • @Codylun92
    @Codylun92 2 місяці тому

    Poor Brian’s getting all the work. Going to put a IO in next. 😂

  • @starfirebird3099
    @starfirebird3099 15 днів тому

    re: infiltration, I've had a missed IV in the hospital before, I told the nurse it didn't feel right (I've had them enough to expect the "cold in vein" feeling) but she didn't believe me until my arm swelled up...oops!

  • @giuseppinavolpe2873
    @giuseppinavolpe2873 Місяць тому

    Manies Times they leave it too much in the vein

  • @YawinsomeYawinsome
    @YawinsomeYawinsome 2 місяці тому

    Great video, great production, the vein diagram overlay was very slick.
    Not to whine and sound too hippy dippy but you touched one personal nerve: please consider not turning the patient into a table when you don't absolutely have to. There is almost always another flat surface, and then I see folks get in this habit and eventually they're putting wrappers and other trash on the patient too and just..... They're a person, not a table.

  • @charlesjeffery3998
    @charlesjeffery3998 Місяць тому

    I hate when they don't shave the patient first, especially when they are men, and my IV training this is something that we had to do, and it came with our training, like in our things that you saw him open it will be a razor, and we always had to put a sock over the iv with a 2 by 4, not just tegaderm.

  • @gabrielharward4189
    @gabrielharward4189 2 місяці тому +1

    Thought this was an April fools video by the thumbnail cause it looked like a knee 😅

  • @rquance1
    @rquance1 27 днів тому

    Just remember to actually get the vein and not punch through it.

  • @sweetiepie4328
    @sweetiepie4328 Місяць тому

    My teacher said no tape on the table

    • @PrepMedic
      @PrepMedic  Місяць тому

      Tape doesn’t cover the insertion site. It’s fine to put it on the table.

  • @sbreheny
    @sbreheny 2 місяці тому

    Taste the saline?!

  • @GuilhermeAlvesJorge
    @GuilhermeAlvesJorge 2 місяці тому

    Like 299

  • @ChrisSmith-fr5oi
    @ChrisSmith-fr5oi Місяць тому

    Is it ethical to deliberately induce pain (even with consent) on a person/subject for a video?? The Dr himself admitted this is a painful procedure. My stomach turned the moment of insert.

    • @PrepMedic
      @PrepMedic  Місяць тому +1

      If it wasn’t ethical to do a painful procedure on a consenting adult then no one would ever become a nurse, paramedic, doctor, or phlebotomist. Do you know how many times you get poked with needles in school?

  • @drengillespie
    @drengillespie Місяць тому +1

    They’re not that hard, even a nurse could do it. 😉
    “If one hundred people graduated from [medical school], someone came in last. Ask me how I know!”
    -Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch

  • @arnelgelera242
    @arnelgelera242 2 місяці тому

    Hardstick scenarios not included😂

  • @user-vk5ic5hb4s
    @user-vk5ic5hb4s 20 днів тому

    I don't understand why it hard for doctors to let ill patients iv line at home life is a nightmare for me with short 3 times a day

  • @chuckvenable4409
    @chuckvenable4409 Місяць тому

    I'll never ever have any reasons to learn how to start an IV. NEVER !!!!!

  • @pamagujar183
    @pamagujar183 2 місяці тому

    Everytine I see that knife clip hanging over the edge of someone's pant pocket, but concealing the folding knife inside the pocket I think danger for my safety.

  • @doctor_feel_good_rx7467
    @doctor_feel_good_rx7467 2 місяці тому

    Weight the cost/benefit analysis of opening your video up to anyone. What's your purpose? Para-professionals can have learning opportunities elsewhere. IV drug abusers don't need a tutorial or trigger. A relative relapsed after observing this post resulting in an extremely negative unspeakable outcome..

  • @rickslingerland1155
    @rickslingerland1155 2 місяці тому

    OK, if if someone comes to my ED with a line started by someone who learned how by watching a youtube video, it ain't staying in 2 more minutes, much less two days.🤣

  • @peregrineme8749
    @peregrineme8749 2 місяці тому +1

    Lol, only in America do they use a shotgun analogy when explaining medical devices. Hilarious... (ly) tragic

  • @thomaspayne7800
    @thomaspayne7800 2 місяці тому

    Fire 🔥