Where it helps
Where the first attempt matters most.
The hardest sticks happen where patients are sickest and veins are most exhausted. VeinMate Assist is built to support the clinician across the settings where a missed vein costs the most — in time, in comfort, and in trust.
Peripheral vascular access is the most common invasive procedure in medicine — and the difficulty is not spread evenly. It concentrates in the places where the stakes are highest: the intensive care unit, the oncology chair, the dialysis round, and the back of a moving ambulance. The same core capability — see the vein, guide the clinician, keep the human in command — meets each of these settings a little differently.
Critical care
When every minute — and every vein — counts.
In intensive care, the patients who need access most are often the hardest to cannulate. Oedema, low blood pressure, vasopressors, and days of repeated attempts leave veins collapsed and elusive — exactly when access can't wait. A missed line delays time-critical fluids, medication, and sampling, and every extra attempt is another burden on an already fragile patient.
VeinMate Assist brings near-infrared imaging and on-device AI guidance to the bedside, so the clinician can see and target a viable vein before the first attempt — turning a stressful, repeated search into a clearer, faster decision. The clinician stays fully in command throughout.
- Reveal veins that are hard to find in oedematous or hypotensive patients.
- Support faster, more confident access when time is critical.
- Help spare critically ill patients repeated attempts.
- Capture a structured record of every session for the unit's quality review.
In the ICU
The difficult airway of vascular access
Difficult intravenous access is a recognised, everyday problem in critical care — the reason escalation, ultrasound, and specialist teams exist. Guidance that travels to the bedside is meant to help the first clinician there make a better first attempt.
Described as an intended benefit under validation, not a claim of clinical outcomes.
Cancer care
Kinder access through a hard journey.
Chemotherapy is punishing on veins. Months of infusions and blood draws leave them scarred, fragile, and hard to find — and every failed stick adds pain and anxiety to a patient who is already carrying enough. For oncology teams, protecting a patient's remaining veins is part of the care itself.
Clear first-attempt guidance across compromised veins helps the clinician find a workable access point with less searching and fewer repeat sticks — supporting comfort and dignity at the chair, and helping preserve the veins that remain. It complements, and does not replace, a patient's long-term access plan.
- Better first-attempt guidance on scarred, fragile, chemo-worn veins.
- Fewer repeat sticks — less pain and anxiety for the patient.
- Supports routine blood draws and peripheral infusions in day-care oncology.
- Helps teams treat every patient's veins as precious.
Dialysis & renal care
Every vein is precious.
For people living with kidney disease, vascular access is a lifelong reality — and veins are a finite resource. Frequent blood sampling and peripheral access in renal patients, whose vasculature is often already exhausted, demand care and precision so that no vein is spent needlessly.
VeinMate Assist helps the clinician find and target peripheral veins reliably on the first attempt, supporting the vein-preservation mindset that good renal care depends on. Guidance is advisory; the clinician always decides and performs the access.
- Reliable first-attempt peripheral access and blood sampling.
- Supports a vein-preservation approach in patients with limited access.
- Helps reduce repeat trauma to already-stressed vasculature.
- Structured records to support the renal unit's audit and review.
Focused on peripheral venous access and sampling. VeinMate Assist is not a device for arteriovenous fistula cannulation.
Why it matters
A finite resource, treated that way
In long-term renal care, the veins a patient has must last. A first-attempt-first approach — see clearly, choose well, stick once — is exactly the discipline VeinMate Assist is designed to support.
In-field & ambulatory care
Expert guidance, wherever care happens.
Access is often hardest exactly where conditions are worst — a moving ambulance, a roadside, a rural clinic, a patient's own home. Poor lighting, no vascular-access specialist on hand, and no time to spare. Yet a reliable line can shape everything that follows.
VeinMate Assist is compact, self-contained, and connects over its own secure Wi-Fi link — no fixed install and no dedicated room. It brings the same clear, AI-guided view to pre-hospital, emergency, rural, and home-care settings, so a paramedic, a community nurse, or a mobile phlebotomist can act with more confidence.
- Portable and self-contained — ready wherever it's needed.
- A secure Wi-Fi link with the bandwidth for live imaging.
- Brings expert-level guidance to non-specialist hands.
- Suited to pre-hospital, rural, and home-healthcare settings.
Across all of these settings, VeinMate Assist is AI-guided and clinician-executed: it images the vein and presents guidance, and the trained clinician confirms the target and performs the access. VeinMate Assist is an investigational device and is not approved for sale or clinical use; suitability for any patient or setting is always the clinician's judgement.
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Whether you run a critical care unit, an oncology day-care, a dialysis service, or a pre-hospital team, we'd like to explore a pilot built around how you actually work.
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