Does anyone know what the current protocol is for an accidental arterial puncture during routine blood draw?

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Remove the needle and apply pressure - if you're so thick you don't know that, you shouldn't be let loose near people with a needle!

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As I do it:

swear
get help
withdraw the needle
apply local pressure
assess the vascular supply of the limb distal to the arterial puncture (usually is okay unless you have administered something or if the patient has bad vascular disease such as severe raynauds)

Guys - inadvertent arterial puncture is a well known and well recognized complication of venepuncture.

The external jugular is a vein and not an artery, and if you have punctured the carotid artery you still need to carefully apply unilateral (one sided) pressure to the point of haemorrhage.

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Yeah what bimble said- unless it was an EJ (jugular)-hahaha Get a doctorl!

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