It’s more likely if you use IV opioids, like heroin, on your own. It’s important to critically evaluate whether IV opioid use is necessary and whether it’s the best course of action.

However, IV acetaminophen use increased to 13% in 2017 (mean change per year, 2%), comprising 20% of hospital days with any acetaminophen use and reaching $16 million in costs that year.

Reasearch led by Amsterdam UMC, across more than 5 years and 1100 patients has demonstrated a strategy for reducing inappropriate IV use by a third, an effect that was sustained across the five ...

The widespread, harmful effects of opioid use disorder, and the pitfalls of opioid use in general, have become all too familiar to people all over the United States. Words like “disease” and ...

Further qualification of when to use IV-IgG by assessment of additional factors: symptomatology, time to normalisation of immunoglobulins and comparison with other immunodeficiency syndromes.

Short-term use of IV devices is common -- and risky -- study shows Intravenous devices known as PICCs should be reserved for long-term use, but a new study shows 1 in 4 are used for 5 days or less ...