"I'm kind of a hard poke, and this saves the anxiety and stress around the draw."
Ryan is what his medical care team calls a 'frequent flyer.' After a serious automobile accident as a teenager resulted in the amputation of his left leg below the knee, he has had to endure years of surgeries. "A lot of times, people look at that as a pretty significant disability, but it hasn't slowed me down," Ryan said.
Now, as a father to three rambunctious boys, Ryan still stays active--skiing, hunting and going on long hikes. But years of hospitalization and vascular access problems make blood draws one of the challenging parts of his hospital stays. "I'm kind of a hard poke to start with, and you can see my arms and hands are bruised--and that is from the last couple of days."
Ryan was the first patient at his hospital to receive a needle-free blood draw with the PIVO™ Needle-free Blood Collection Device. "I was a little concerned that I might be able to feel it, but I didn't feel it at all--it was phenomenal."
For him, and two of three patients who are difficult venous access, technologies like the PIVO™ Device can make hospital stays a little less challenging and "save the anxiety and stress around hospital blood draws."