... be useful; some patients are not able to take the drugs that are currently available as pills or liquid and may benefit from intravenous antiviral medications. To help meet the potential need for IV medications to combat the ... influenza, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization on Oct. 23 to allow use of intravenous peramivir, an investigational antiviral drug in the class of drugs known as ...

Intravenous literature: Scales, K. (2009) Correct use of chlorhexidine in intravenous practice. Nursing Standard. 24(8), p.41-6. Abstract: This article reviews the routes by which ... devices, and examines the role of chlorhexidine in the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections. Chlorhexidine-based cleansing products for use in intravenous therapy are reviewed and their correct use

... treating acute severe pain in children is to administer intravenous or intranasal opioid. Intranasal diamorphine offers less ... morphine concentration–time profiles following intranasal and intravenous diamorphine administration. Design: Observational. Setting: ... 13 years, with isolated limb fracture. Interventions: An intravenous catheter was sited and baseline blood taken. The first 12 ...

... and Purpose— Prompt care-seeking behavior is a focus of US national public stroke educational campaigns. We determined whether the time between symptom onset and hospital arrival and the receipt of intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (IV t-PA) changed for ischemic stroke patients evaluated at US academic centers between 2001 and 2004. Methods— Medical records were abstracted ...

... like syringe exchange programs swap used syringes for sterile ones with intravenous drug users. The reasoning behind these programs is people are using intravenous drugs and spreading HIV/AIDS in the process. By offering a needle exchange, these groups are not promoting drug use ... percent of Ohio’s HIV/AIDS cases can be credited to intravenous drug use. In honor of World AIDS Day, people ...

... yet independent solutions. Gaffney wrote a Poe-themed crossword with the elements BRAVE NEW WORLD, INTRAVENOUS DRIP, CONTRAVENE, COBRA VENOM, and VENTNOR AVENUE (all of which have "raven ... the host city--a puzzle with the same theme. His five theme entries: BRAVE NEW WORLD (!), INTRAVENOUS DRIP (!!), CONTRAVENE (!!!), COBRA VENOM (!!!!), and ST. CLAIR AVENUE (a major Toronto thoroughfare). ...