title: Vascular access. How to set up a drip and keep it going.
abstract: No amount of helpful hints can replace experience when it comes to successful venous cannulation. Although the number of serious problems following intravenous infusions is small, we should still be critical of the standards employed.
mesh_terms: D001815:Bloodletting / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D006801:Humans; D007263:Infusions, Parenteral / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009339:Needles; D014111:Tourniquets