Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to S R Savino.
Hospitalized patients may require invasive vascular access. There are several types of vascular access; some have special activity restrictions. This article describes the types of vascular access the hospital caregiver may encounter and suggests conservative activity restrictions, which will assist the caregiver in planning care for the patient with invasive vascular access.
Needle-stick injury remains the most dangerous exposure to blood and body fluids. Needleless intermittent intravenous devices are available to assist the health care professional in avoiding the risk of needle-stick injury. The i.v. team at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York designed a method to evaluate and compare different needleless systems. In this article, the method followed and results obtained in this study are discussed.
Drip chamber size on intravenous administration sets varies. The practitioner may select a minidrip intravenous administration set to administer low flow rate IVs or medications. Baxter's InterLink Continu-Flo is available in minidrip size without restrictive tubing. The purpose of this study was to determine how much faster the nonrestrictive InterLink tubing would deliver i.v. fluid than would the Baxter Continu-Flo set with its minidrip chamber and restrictive tubing.