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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sitting here and find all this talk of how difficult it can be to place an IV in someone in an emergency, and I just don't get it. Maybe I was lucky. Maybe I had the world's best IV placer. I was in a pretty nasty car crash, all sorts of broken and dislocated bones, bleeding, concussion, shock. One of the few things I remember is this amazingly deft insertion of the IV (ever try and start an IV on a needle-phobe who is thrashing and not really aware of what's going on?), like it was no problem. My friend, who walked away from the accident, saw it and marveled at the ease in which they were able to do it.

Anyways, I figured if they can get an IV into me when I'm thrashing about and trying to scream "NO!" despite the fractured and dislocated jaw and trying to swat the nurse away with an arm that's at a funny angle, you can get an IV into pretty much anyone.

And now I hear abut how bloody hard it is to insert IVs and that's why I need that damnable not-hep heplock in my arm....well, you see why I'm wondering just what the heck is going on here.[/quote]

This kind of thing is why I felt like the OB was using scare tactics. I'm aware things can go wrong in labor; I'm curious how often it happens "out of the blue". I once had a phlebotomist who'd been a nurse in Iraq. As I was trying to get my needle phobia under control, I was imagining all the terrible circumstances under which he said he'd inserted lines and drawn blood.

Maybe if hospitals didn't actively discourage eating and drinking as desired (I know some women have zero desire for either) they wouldn't have to have IVs as a matter of course.[/quote]

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