10 Facts About Intravenous therapy

Intravenous therapy is a medical technique that administers fluids, medications and nutrients directly into a person's vein.

Attempts at providing intravenous therapy have been recorded as early as the 1400s, but the practice did not become widespread until the 1900s after the development of techniques for safe, effective use.

Intravenous therapy route is the fastest way to deliver medications and fluid replacement throughout the body as they are introduced directly into the circulatory system and thus quickly distributed.

The act of administering a therapy intravenously, or placing an intravenous line for later use, is a procedure which should only be performed by a skilled professional.

Intravenous therapy access is used to administer medications and fluid replacement which must be distributed throughout the body, especially when rapid distribution is desired.

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Intravenous therapy access is sometimes used outside of a medical setting for the self-administration of recreational drugs, such as heroin and fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, DMT, and others.

The presence of a cord is a cause of discomfort and pain associated with IV Intravenous therapy, and makes it more difficult for an IV line to be placed as a line cannot be placed in an area with a cord.

Intravenous therapy worked with Edmund King to transfuse sheep's blood into a man who was mentally ill.

Intravenous therapy was expanded by Italian physician Guido Baccelli in the late 1890s and further developed in the 1930s by Samuel Hirschfeld, Harold T Hyman and Justine Johnstone Wanger but was not widely available until the 1950s.