Intravenous (IV) therapy is administering fluids directly into a vein. It benefits treatment by enabling water, medication, blood, or nutrients to access the body faster through the circulatory ...

IV fluids are typically given immediately to trauma victims whose blood pressure has decreased sharply due to blood loss, the rationale being that the fluids quickly raise low blood pressure to ...

“She said ‘Why do you keep sticking me for blood draws? Why don’t you use (the IV line)?’ ” Stone said. Devgon took it to heart, and began developing a way to use the IV as a conduit for ...

The company, based in San Francisco, has received positive notice for its FDA-approved device, dubbed PIVO, which lets hospital clinicians draw blood through an existing IV line. We chatted with ...