Low-Cost Bicycle Lights vs. Cold Lights for Visualizing Neonatal Veins | Zendy

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Low-Cost Bicycle Lights vs. Cold Lights for Visualizing Neonatal Veins

Author(s) -

Neal Russell,

Paul Bassett,

John Chang

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of tropical pediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.464

H-Index - 51

eISSN - 1465-3664

pISSN - 0142-6338

DOI - 10.1093/tropej/fmx049

Subject(s) - transillumination , medicine , visibility , warranty , optometry , surgery , optics , pathology , law , physics , political science

Difficult intravenous (IV) access can compromise patient care in neonatal practice, and transillumination is often used to improve the visibility of veins. Current devices are expensive, prone to bacterial contamination and unaffordable in low-resource settings. We conducted a study comparing the quality of transillumination provided by "cold lights" that are currently in use with low-cost (<£1) red silicone LED bicycle lights.

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