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Post by ent568 on Sept 17, 2012 21:16:14 GMT -5
I had some minor tingling in my ring and pinky fingers (ulnar nerve) that did not fully go away until a YEAR after a bad blood draw from an inexperience tech at a certain clinic in Texas. So as a word of warning, if they are not able to get the blood on the first draw, dont let them dig around in your vein.
Also I overheard people discussing an incident where someone's vein was lacerated and this person had to go home without the stipend.
Techs fiddling around in the vein is not uncommon and usually nothing happens, but from now on, I would recommend you dont let them do it.
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Post by carmel on Oct 8, 2012 16:46:37 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear that, ent. Just out of curiosity, were you able to ue with studies despite the nerve damage? Or did you halt them for a year until recovery? And also, if we see fiddling and we are right in the middle of a study... how do we go about requesting a different "tech"?
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Post by labrat1 on Nov 14, 2012 13:00:58 GMT -5
Nerve damage is a serious injury. They can be held liable.
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Post by travelingrat on Nov 16, 2012 9:26:51 GMT -5
sorry that happened to you. i had a bad blood draw experience at a FL clinic. fortunately after the unfortunate experience i had sloppy good luck in that she did awful blood draws on 3 other women, so we all 4 requested that that tech not be allowed to draw our blood any more. it turned out that she was trying to stop smoking ... should not have showed up for work that day at all!
this was a situation where there was safety in numbers. it is hard to complain when you are the only one. if any of you do have to, my advice is to go to the study coordinator and be as polite as possible.
does anyone else have advice re this problem? i am sure it has happened to a lot of us!
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Post by idoitforthepong on Nov 16, 2012 16:37:13 GMT -5
It happened to me...phlebotomist was even a "higher up". but i recovered and am 100%. Yeah it can happen but one bad draw out of a few hundred aint bad
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