1. While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line, Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy. 2. As he awoke in a hospital after a suicide attempt, he asked a doctor why only the left arm still had an intravenous line. 3. Ask whether intravenous lines, catheters or tubes are still necessary. 4. Because only a doctor or a special intravenous nurse can restart the intravenous line, the procedure can waste time. 5. Bettina Finocchio had seen her mother try to pull out intravenous lines when she was hospitalized, and knew she would pull out a feeding tube. 6. A single intravenous line was inserted into his right leg. 7. A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections said technicians, not doctors, insert the intravenous line that delivers the lethal drugs to the condemned prisoner. 8. A special team of nurses was responsible for starting intravenous lines, freeing the bedside nurses for other chores. 9. A yellow solution dripped through an intravenous line, feeding the bright pink, fist-sized muscle the sugars and other nutrients it needed to keep on working. 10. About noon, a nurse inserted an intravenous line in her arm. |