IV Catheter Guide: Types, Parts, Sizes, and Why Lars Medicare Is the Manufacturer Hospitals Rely On
There is a procedure that happens more often than any other invasive clinical intervention in hospitals around the world. It takes less than a minute when performed by an experienced nurse. It involves a small sharp needle, a flexible plastic tube, and a patient's vein. And when it is done well, neither the patient nor the clinical team thinks about it again until it is time to change the device three or four days later. That procedure is peripheral IV catheterization, and the device at the center of it is the IV catheter. Despite how routine this procedure has become, the IV catheter carries genuine clinical responsibility every single time it is used. It is the pathway through which life-saving medications, emergency fluids, blood products, and nutritional support reach a patient's bloodstream. When it works perfectly, treatment is delivered safely, comfortably, and on schedule. When it does not, the consequences show up immediately in failed insertions, vein damage, therap...