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State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

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Archive > March, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 3

New Options in IV Delivery

Innovative new designs are making manifolds easier to use, ensuring more accurate drug delivery and preventing infection.

Kent Steinriede, Associate Editor

Over the last few years, the design of IV stopcocks, manifolds and injection ports has evolved to help anesthesia providers deliver increasingly complex combinations of fast-acting drugs with greater accuracy and efficiency, and less risk of infection. Here are six concerns addressed by these improvements.

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