The history of peripheral intravenous catheters: how little plastic tubes revolutionized medicine

Acta Anaesthesiol Belg. 2005;56(3):271-82.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Historical Article
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Blood Transfusion / history
  • Blood Transfusion / instrumentation
  • Catheterization, Peripheral / adverse effects
  • Catheterization, Peripheral / history*
  • Catheterization, Peripheral / instrumentation*
  • Cholera / therapy
  • Fluid Therapy / history
  • Fluid Therapy / instrumentation
  • History, 17th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, Medieval
  • Humans
  • Plastics
  • Sodium Chloride

Substances

  • Plastics
  • Sodium Chloride