Need help on a question

[Brittney]

I know a bunch of you are Vets, Techs, and students in the Veterinary field.

My final is tomorrow and I am freaking out. I can't remember, for the life of me, where you are supposed to hold off for a Saphenous blood draw on a dog. My instructor says above the knee, ands when I worked at a clinic, they said above the hock.

If I put it in the wrong place, I will automatically fail, so I need some help to make sure I'm doing this right.

Bare with my horrible drawing of a dog's left rear leg and the vein, but do you hold off at point A or point B granted the vet will be drawing from the engorged vein.

Thanks!

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[Riven]

We always held at the knee.

If your instructor says the knee, I'd go with the knee, won't he/she be the one grading the paper/performance? And hey if this is the ONLY thing you're worried about, you're doing great! LOL

 

[Brittney]

Thank you so much! It's not the ONLY thing I'm worried about, but it was the only thing that totally slipped my mind.

 

[Riven]

Good luck, tests and finals can be very stressful! Make sure you get plenty of sleep and maybe even a hot bath in! My A&P instructor tells us, that if we're trying to hard and studying all the time, we'll never learn anything!

 

[mishellyshel]

Good Luck on your test Brittney!

 

[Stackie]

Yep, we were taught knee as well.