Lineus - Model BVAD - Drawing Blood Through Single Lumen PIV Catheters

The graphic to the right shows the costs and pain points associated with a diabetic patient in the hospital for five days and receiving five blood draws per day. With a traditional peripheral IV, a patient will have approximately 25 needle sticks just for blood draws over five days.(3)

The goal should be that once venous access is established, all medication and all blood draws needed are accomplished through one peripheral IV catheter. Since we have venous access, shouldn`t we be able to get a blood draw without sticking the patient over and over again or using expensive blood draw assist devices? BVAD is the answer.

BVAD is being designed to allow uncontaminated blood draws while simultaneously maintaining an IV infusion. If a nurse knows that a patient will require regular blood draws, a dual-lumen BVAD can be installed rather than a traditional, single lumen catheter. The video to the right is a lab simulation that shows how BVAD can allow the transfusion of medication through one catheter lumen and through the second catheter lumen, an uncontaminated blood draw can be taken.

For diabetic patients admitted to the hospital, they will have at least 4 blood samples per day to check their blood sugar, as well as additional venous blood draws for lab tests. When considering costs associated with the frequent needle-sticks and finger pricks for diabetic inpatient admissions, after 5 days BVAD delivers a savings of $37 by reducing expensive phlebotomist blood draws and preventing traditional IV restarts that typically occur 4 days after initial insertion.