What is intravenous tubing?
Intravenous tubing, also called IV tube, is a plastic pipe used to administer various fluids to patients through a needle inserted into one of the patient veins. Blood or fluids enriched with electrolytes travel on intravenous tubes from the bag IV to the patient's vein. Intravenous technologies that allow the treatment to be performed directly into the patient's bloodstream continuously. Many tubes have different lines that allow patients to receive more treatments from the same intravenous line. The tube itself is made of flexible but strong plastics that do not interact with drugs served through a tube.
As soon as the patient is connected to an intravenous line, several drugs can be administered without the need for additional injections. In this way, blood, drugs and nutritional or electrolytes can be administered. Various diversion in an intravenous tube allow a physician to administer treatment from various intravenous bags or injection directly to an intravenous line. BagsTiny or blood can also be changed without removal of a hypodermic needle, allowing patients to treat continuously.
polypropylene, nylon and dynaflex are some of the more common materials from which intravenous tubing is made. As plastics, these synthetic materials can be produced with special properties that make it ideal for this use. These materials used are flexible, strong, evidence of leakage and do not respond to chemicals transported through them. Manufacturers of intravenous hoses can produce tubes of different thicknesses and shapes according to the specifications provided to them.
Advances in intravenous administration of drugs in the 18th century led to the development of intravenous pipes. In 1855, Dr. Alexander Wood has become a person who uses a hypodermic needle to injure the drug directly into the patient's vein. In 1896, a French company, H. Wulfing Luer Company, developed Luer Connection, whichallowed the head of the hypodermic needle to be easily connected and separated from the glass syringe. This connection, which consists of tapering male and female components, is still used to connect various pieces in an intravenous line. These blocking pieces allow doctors to change intravenous bags, add additional drip lines and attach an intravenous tube to the needle in the patient's vein with minimal discomfort to the patient.