X-Ray Glasses Allow Doctors and Nurses to Pinpoint A Patient's Veins

[Kyrdra]

One of my doctors when I ripped my hand open could have used that. She had 4 attempts to hit the vain and she managed to miss every single of them. The nurse managed to do it on the first try

 

[Yoshi4102]

A nurse will never have to use that with me. I always get complimented on my veins.

 

[Barbas]

Good. Maybe now those incompetents at the hospital can find the correct vein on the first try, instead of the fourth.

Ah, well. Progress!

 

[Korolev]

Some patients have extremely unusual veins and gaining access to them can be very, very difficult. I saw a patient who had to endure repeated attempts at insertion from multiple health care workers, due to the fact that his veins were somehow unusually difficult to access. These glasses may help in those cases.

 

[iseko]

Awesome tech, though the the thing that stood out to me first and foremost:

"Accurate AND precise"? Hrrrmmmm i don't really think you can have precision without accuracy... superfluously redundant because you have to have three things in a list.. not two.

In science those are two different things. Not sure about the semantics of it though...

Accuracy: being able to 'hit' the target as close to as we want. Making the measured error as small as possible.

Precision: even if there is an error. It will always be more or less the same.

Example: you want to measure an electric current. It is in fact 15.239mA.
Scenario A: you measure four times. 15.3,15.4,15.2 and 15.1 your measuring tool is accurate but not precise.

Scenario B: you measure 15.5, 15.5, 15.6 and 15.5 your measuring tool is precise but not accurate.

Scenario C: you measure 15.2, 15.2, 15.2 15.3 your measuring tool is both precise and accurate.

OT: I doubt they use xrays. And eventhough its a neat gimmick. I doubt they are going to give it to nurses for injections... Way to expensive

 

[Risenfire]

This Reminds me of a similar piece of technology that used ultrasound to properly place guided needles for IV fluids and such.
http://somaaccesssystems.com/axotrack_overview.php
Both are pretty cool pieces of technology, not sure how the price would compare between the two, but 10k actually sounds like a pretty good deal, assuming they don't break every other month.