In this report, the authors evaluated the utility of a topical cooling spray as a way to reduce pain during intravenous cannulation in an emergency department setting. The study group compared 103 ...

Background: Established noninvasive pharmacologic means of alleviating pain and anxiety in children undergoing intravenous cannulation are time-consuming, and thus impractical for routine use in the ...

Most nurses are familiar with the care needed by a patient receiving intravenous therapy. Common to the patient receiving drugs or intravenous fluids is the vascular access device (VAD). Increasingly, ...

Securing central venous access in neonates and infants is one of the most technically demanding tasks in pediatric anesthesia ...

In some patients, inserting intravenous catheters is a painful and tricky affair. Nurse anesthetist Rick van Loon of Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven has developed a technique that dramatically ...

(HealthDay)—The incidence of phlebitis caused by peripheral intravenous cannula insertions may be higher among patients with certain risk factors, according to a study published online Dec. 27 in the ...

Ray Higginson is chartered biologist and senior lecturer in critical care, and Andrew Parry is senior lecturer in critical care; both at the Faculty of Health, Sport and Science, University of ...

On August 17, a doctor posted on twitter about a child who was about to lose their hand as a result of a cannula being inserted wrongly. According to Dr Andew Iloket, a medical officer at Kumi ...