Abstract
Now a day it is very difficult to administer the medication or the fluid which is necessary for the treatment, and difficult to draw the blood and also to access the veins in patients at hospitals for the nurses and the doctors. It is very important to reduce the problem of locating the vein and minimize the time require for locating it . However, problems involved in accessing veins in pediatric and obese patients make it very difficult to perform a successful stick in a short time. The Vein Viewer Imaging System is an infrared imaging device that provides the nurses and doctors a means for locating veins in the very first attempt and within a few seconds. A camera captures an image of the veins illuminated by infrared light and a contrast-enhanced image of the veins is projected back on to the patient’s skin in real-time using a projector, after being processed by processing unit in the computer. The image obtain is a read time image. Each vein in the Vein Viewer image appears with different contrast against the background skin and hence can easily be differentiated
Keyword:
Pediatric, Intravenous Vein, Infrared Light, Reflection, Absorption.