Traci was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis as a child. Since then, she has experienced repeated vascular access for blood draws and IVs causing her arms, wrists and hands to become painful and bruised. Over the course of two, 30-day hospital stays, her veins collapsed and clinicians had to go under her knuckles to access her veins. This made blood draws so painful that she was prescribed a powerful pain medication to make them more bearable and had to have a central venous catheter (CVC) placed in her neck, which ended up getting clogged and becoming unusable.
When she was recently admitted to the hospital with a pulmonary embolism, she experienced the PIVO™ Needle-free Blood Collection Device for the first time. “The only way I can describe this product is to say it’s truly a life-changing game changer for patients like me,” Traci said. “It helped eliminate needlestick pain and the need for additional medication and unnecessary line escalations.”
In addition to making blood draws virtually pain free, this device makes it possible for patients to experience what’s called a “one-stick hospital stay vision," by using an IV catheter line already in place instead of having to be poked and prodded countless times for blood collection.
“Many patients like me experience so much trauma, pain and anxiety from past needlestick experiences, they’ll avoid seeking medical care if they think it means having blood drawn,” Traci said. “The PIVO™ Device can be truly life-changing, because I believe it can make patients who have to receive frequent blood draws far less anxious and hesitant when having to seek medical care.”