Patent ID: 7303576

Claim:
A vein stabilizer to be mounted on a hand or a forearm of a patient, said vein stabilizer comprising: an elongated strap having two ends interconnected to completely encircle the hand or the forearm of the patient, and two separate tabs mounted on the elongated strap, one of the two separate tabs being fixed to the elongated strap and the other of the two separate tabs being slidably mounted on the elongated strap towards and away from the one tab for pinching a vein of the patient between the two tabs and causing protrusion of the vein from the skin for piercing by a needle, a portion of said elongated strap extending a shortest distance between said two separate tabs to help maintain a relative positioning of said two separate tabs with respect to each other, each of the two separate tabs includes an L-shape having a vertically extending main portion and two separate plates extending perpendicular to the main portion, the elongated strap passing through the vertically extending main portion of the other of said two separate tabs, the vertically extending main portion of the two separate tabs, respectively, being located opposed to each other on opposite sides of the portion of said elongated strap extending the shortest distance between said two separate tabs.