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4 unusual facts about Intravenous therapy


Bible Black

When the Vice Principle rises to attack him, Yamanishi kills him by hitting him in the head with an IV stand.

Julio Gervacio

The days following the fight, Gervacio had to undergo reconstructive jaw surgery, having to be fed with intravenous cables.

Paramedics in Australia

Paramedics practice includes all components of the basic life support level and the further enhancement of IV canulation, drug therapy (oral, intramuscular injection (IM), intravenously (IV), narcotic pain relief, anti-emetics, cardiac arrest, respiratory drugs, etc.

Participation of medical professionals in American executions

Errors occurring in these botched executions include the incorrect placing of IV lines, and injection of too little anaesthetic, reported in one study to have been consistent with awareness in 43% (21 executions) of the forty-nine executions in the study.



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David Nalin

Nalin had the key insight that Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) would work if the volume of solution patients drank matched the volume of their fluid losses, and that this would drastically reduce or completely replace the only current treatment for cholera, intravenous therapy.