The potential risk occurs when clinicians use the same bin to start IVs as they move from patient to patient. Consider the probability of a clinician contaminating this bin while retrieving supplies ...
Dr. Peter Bailey: I’ve been starting IVs for 30 years and have gotten pretty good at it. The things that I do that most other clinicians don’t is to get the hand (the preferred first puncture site ...
Thomas Wherry, MD, is medical director for Health Inventures and medical director for Total Anesthesia Solutions, and Cindy A. King RN, CPHQ, is director of clinical, quality and compliance for Health ...
Denver Health, EMS provider for the city and county of Denver, is reversing its longtime policy preventing firefighters from starting IVs. The move comes as the fire department has asked for several ...
Background. Inserting peripheral intravenous (PIV) lines into often dehydrated, typically irritable, and universally uncooperative small children is an everyday task for many pediatric nurses. Success ...
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