[What do nurses think of pain associated with vascular functions?]

One of the most common techniques used by nurses in carrying out their clinical practice is the vascular puncture, commonly associated with pain bearable for the patient to a greater or lesser extent. For the past few years have been appearing in the pharmaceutical industry a series of local anesthetics can be used for vascular puncture to minimize or alleviate the pain. The increasing interest by nurses in this field is evidenced by the growing number of scientific articles published in this discipline, included in the Intravenous Therapy. During the Fourth National Congress of the Association of Intravenous Therapy Teams held in 2010 in Valencia went over to the Congress a survey to assess their knowledge and concerns about pain control in the punctures and the use of local anesthetics in the same.