Iv Therapy History

Intravenous therapy is the administration of fluid substance directly into a vein as a therapeutic treatment. Blood therapy has been around since ancient times. Nevertheless, the techniques today are very different from back in the days. The article named. “The History of Intravenous therapy” written by Doris, who is an RN, MS, is written about the use of IV therapy throughout the history. This paper will predominantly summarizing about the article and briefly explaining my view about the article.
In the beginning of the article, the author said, “The history of intravenous therapy. Modern IV therapy is less than a century old. Yet, it was known that medications could be injected into a vein as early as the 1600s. Because of a lack of scientific
However, there have been incredible improvements in effectiveness and infection prevention within the years. Health care restructuring in recent years has reduced the number of IV teams, although nurses’ responsibilities with intravenous therapies have increased. More complicated IV therapies will be created, more drugs involved with IV will be produced, and not only nurses, other healthcare members will have recognized roles in administering and initiating IV therapy. In the article, the author said that addressing the problems of resistance to antibiotics will create the need for newer drugs, and the combination of immunology and molecular biology will produce a new generation of drugs that are genetically engineered drugs. It also stated that licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses will have recognized roles in administering and initiating IV therapy, because the Intravenous Nurses Society will offer them a credentialing examination (Millam, 1996). Eventually, especially for nurses, working IV therapy will continue to be challenging, interesting, and crucial to the care of
Since around 1600s, there has been a lot studies and attempts on blood infusions, supplying blood, fluid replacement, needle improvements, administration through IV, parenteral nutrition, and IV techniques, but there have has been very little success. Most of them resulted in failure and many people who were being experimented result in death. Even though modern IV therapy is less than a century old, there has been drastic improvements in effectiveness with less complications. The modern IV therapies will continue to develop and continue to improve the reputation in IV therapy