Fast Bone Access for Emergency Care

Intraosseous needle placement gives emergency teams fast access to the blood stream when a peripheral intravenous cannula, or PIV, is hard to place. It is used for unstable patients who need urgent medications, fluids, or blood products. The needle enters the highly vascularized intramedullary space inside a long bone, where...

Intraosseous, or IO, needle placement is one of the methods of establishing vascular access quickly for unstable patients requiring urgent administration of medications, fluids or blood products. IO needles allow rapid and technically straightforward access to the highly vascularized intramedullary space inside the long bones. From there, medica...