fluids

This topic was actually brought up by a medical student who worked with me last week in the operating room. After seeing a unit of packed red blood cells hanging alongside a liter of normal saline on the IV pole, he asked how…

Peripheral intravenous (IV) access is utilized for volume resuscitation, medication administration, blood product transfusion, nutrition, lab draws, and many other reasons. It's a skill which anesthesiologists perfect through experience but…