Children's veins are small and sometimes difficult to access during necessary medical treatment. When caregivers used ultrasound to guide placement of intravenous (IV) lines in children with presumed ...

A new study shed light on the large proportion of nursing home residents who have venous catheters, or intravenous (IV) lines, left in long after antibiotics are completed. Untimely removal poses ...

When caregivers used ultrasound to guide placement of intravenous lines in children with presumed difficult access, they had higher success rates on their first attempt. Researchers report that this ...

Recent failures by states to properly insert intravenous lines during executions have brought increased scrutiny to the most widely used death penalty method in the United States. Problems in Arizona ...

After last-minute appeals and issues with inserting an IV line, prison officials determined there was not enough time left to execute an inmate before his death warrant expired. By Nicholas ...

Safen’s tags can be used to label intravenous lines and indicate what drug is being used for a particular patient. The tags were invented by former Fort Worth doctor Dr. David Friedman and designed to ...