A new study found that continuous infusion of inotropic medication can be safely administered at home or in hospice to patients with terminal heart failure as part of a plan to provide them with a better quality of life during end stages.
Samar Pandey had his arm pricked eight times at different spots before the nurse could find the right veins to inject him. He sat through the pain and left cursing the “inexperienced” nurse.
Needle-phobics call it sheer agony, the wait time in the hospital before a nurse sticks a hypodermic needle through the skin and into a vein.
Allegheny Health Network promises to shorten that delay in five of its hospitals by dissolving teams of intravenous therapy nurses, who specialize in inserting IV lines, and reassigning many of their duties to floor nurses.
Infusion therapy is having medication or fluids delivered into the body via an intravenous catheter or central line. This form of therapy is used to treat multiple medical conditions when oral medications are not an option.
Immunoglobulin G (Ig) concentrate is administered to an individual for one of two reasons: to provide immunoglobulin to a patient who has a primary or secondary immune deficiency, or to modulate the immune system in a patient who suffers from an autoimmune disease.