Experience with Plastic Tubing in Prolonged Intravenous Therapy
- 19 July 1951
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 245 (3) , 97-98
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195107192450303
Abstract
THIS paper summarizes our experience in using intravenous intubation in chronically ill patients for continuous or repetitive venoclyses. It is our impression that this method has a definite adjunctive value in hospital therapy and that it saves patients considerable hardship and renders less difficult the work of physicians and nurses in the management of the chronically ill.This method is well illustrated in our treatment of a 35-year old woman with Marie–Strümpell arthritis. This patient had undergone 6 unsuccessful arthroplasties in the past and was bedridden. She entered the hospital with chronic pyelonephritis and renal calculi. She had intermittent episodes . . .Keywords
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