PBA -“Health,
You can’t start an IV en route, while the ambulance is moving. Maybe at a red light.”
Didn’t you say your on Hatzolah or your brothers are on Hatzolah?!?
Anyways, you’re very wrong!
From Science direct:
“Success rates for initiation of intravenous therapy en route by prehospital care providers
Corey M. Slovis. Author, 1990
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta,
Emergency Medicine Residency, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta
Abstract
The optimal extent of prehospital care, including intravenous (IV) therapy for critically III patients, remains unclear. The authors evaluated the success rate for IV cannulation in a moving ambulance by trained emergency medical technicians and paramedics in 64 – 1 adult medical- and trauma-related cases. At least one IV line was started in 80% of medical patients and 92% of trauma patients, regardiess of blood pressure. In hypotensive patients, the success rates for at least one IV in medical and trauma patients were 80% and 95%, respectively. These data suggest that IV lines can be secured with a high degree of success en route to the hospital by trained personnel, and that prompt transport of unstable patients should not be delayed solely to obtain IV access.”