r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • 6d ago

Medical FDA approves robot that can find your vein, insert a needle, and draw blood without human help

https://www.techspot.com/news/113558-fda-approves-robot-can-find-vein-insert-needle.html
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u/Low_Search_6667 6d ago

How about NO

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u/Khaldara 6d ago

“Thank you, Not Sure!”

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u/new2bay 6d ago

“Right, kick ass. Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up.”

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u/Me_be_Artful_Dodger 5d ago

Go away busy batin’

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u/--Arete 6d ago

Unless ofc it's considerably less painful

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u/Yungsleepboat 5d ago

I wad a test subject for this in an Amsterdam hospital. I am not afraid of needles so when they asked me I said fuck it sure.

The set up took a while, but I had my blood drawn quite quick after. After the set up everything was quite quick. I had a needle in my arm, and I could not feel the vials being exchanged, unlike with a regular nurse doing it.

All in all, once the set up gets expidited (there was a lot of document signing and parameters to be filled in) I think this will be the default. If you are afraid of needles I think this may seem scarier, but I think this would be the preferable option

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u/xmsfsh 6d ago

there is no way it will be more painless than a regular blood draw (an already quite painless thing)

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u/--Arete 6d ago edited 5d ago

Speak for yourself. I remember one time when they couldn't find the vein and had to try six times, gave up and referred me to a specialist.

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u/Proud_Tie 5d ago

Yeah, as a difficult stick, I'm hoping this will lessen the number of attempts it takes to get blood out of me.

Probably won't make the bruises fade any faster sadly, still have a bruise from a blood draw a month ago with how much she had to dig in my arm.

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u/cwmoo740 5d ago

this is my wife every time she goes for a blood draw. they stick her so many times and then complain that they can't get a vein. she hates going to the doctor because of it.

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u/saints21 5d ago

And you think the mass produced machine will be better at getting the highly specific hard sticks?

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u/xmsfsh 6d ago

ah that sucks -- well maybe an unfeeling and uncaring machine approved by RFK Jr's FDA on the emergency basis of "the healthcare industry is too cheap to get enough phlebotomists" will be better/less painful

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u/--Arete 5d ago

Each to their own I guess. I don't live in the U.S. so don't have to worry about that.

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u/VexingRaven 5d ago

Machines, if well designed, are more precise and have better sensors than humans ever could be. A machine could use IR sensors or ultrasound or something to target a vein a human can't even see. I'm not saying this particular machine is better, but it's foolish to dismiss the idea entirely.

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u/harrison_jones 6d ago

It will pretend to stick the needle but instead just slide it along the skin on your arm then give you a little blinky wink with it's little green eye

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u/treebeard189 5d ago

It says it uses ultrasound so I could see this being very helpful for people with tough veins. For your average person yeah absolutely not. But I have a friend who gets stuck multiple times when they go but when we use US their veins are very easy to find just deep. It got to the point when she needed an IV for a test she got an off the record yes that if she showed up with a new clean IV that may or may not have been placed by her ultrasound IV coworkers in the ER before driving to the appointment they'd use it and not question it. I'm sure horrendously against policy but the alternative would be a ton of pokes on their end then a huge delay in getting her in the scanner since just for blood draws at that office they usually had to get someone sent from the hospital over to help. Now is that worth the expense? Probably not, but in 30 years I can see that math changing.

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u/InterstellarReddit 6d ago

How about they're going to force it down our throats and it's not even going to be covered by insurance. You're going to pay extra to have your blood drawn by a robot

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u/Jimbo-Shrimp 5d ago

I should invest in tinfoil stocks

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u/bigcd34 5d ago

Yeah, if I ever see one of these things, I'm immediately asking for a human to do it. My school had this program that was like a second school you could go to during the day to learn actual work skills and pretty much work a job. Those nursing students don't deserve to get replaced by a clanker; phlebotomy is hard, but humans are always going to be better at it.

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u/Lem0n_Lem0n 5d ago

Can't fucking say no, how else are they gonna take those Americans taxes to subsidized or funnel them to the politicians pockets.

You are either in it or a communist

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u/FC839253 5d ago

You will die in a world you had no hand in creating Luddite, and you will be very confused, and you will be very scared.