TransLite

While the Veinlite® was becoming popular for treatment of varicose veins, the underlying belief that the Veinlite® could be beneficial for general vein access took a long time to get accepted by the medical community. Attempts at developing a special device for use with pediatric patients for general vein access were not successful with the NIH grant applications. It was not deemed important by the reviewers since vein access was considered to be quite successful overall. However, 35 years of experience in the hospital and seeing multiple failed attempts at vein access, convinced Mr. Mullani that general vein access could be improved. TransLite LLC funded a clinical trial at Boston Children's Hospital to use the fiberoptic Veinlite in a randomized clinical trial to access veins in the hard-to-find vein patients in the Emergency Department. This trial took about three years to complete and a final report was published by Katsugoris et al in Pediatric Emergency Care, Vol 24, Number 2, Feb 2008. The report showed that the use of the Veinlite® improved the success rate for vein access from 74% to 83% after two attempts in children with hard-to-find-veins. This was the first, and still remains the only randomized clinical trial to demonstrate the use of transillumination for general vein access.