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Archive > December, 2004 Vol. V, No. 12

How to Start an IV Without Pain

Step inside the country's first needle-free hospital to find out how jet injectors have eliminated the pain and anxiety of starting an intravenous line.

Leigh Page, Contributing Editor

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