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IV (intravenous) therapy is a form of medication administration in which the desired medication is given directly into the bloodstream through a vein. Intravenous systems, which consist of a small, thin plastic catheter attached to a needle-less "lock" device, are commonly used by medical personnel to draw blood samples, give one-time "pushes" of medications, or infuse medications or fluids over extended periods of time. (These last are commonly known as "IV drips," as the apparatus consists of a large bag or bottle of fluid connected to a length of plastic tubing containing a drip chamber). According to [[The Other Wiki]], intravenous therapy may be used to correct electrolyte imbalances, to deliver medications, for blood transfusion, for rapid fluid replacement to correct dehydration or blood loss, or for maintenance fluids in a patient who cannot eat or drink.

May be related to [[Afraid of Needles]], and represents an amusing subversion: there ''is no needle'' in an established IV, as it's only used to introduce the catheter into the vein, and is removed and safely disposed of immediately thereafter.

 

 

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* [[Inception]]: The dream machine appears to involve an IV-like device, which appears to be simply pulled out when not needed.

** Raises [[Fridge Logic]] issues as to how the dream machine could feasibly be used on someone without their ever realizing it, if their arm is bandaged and sore when they wake up.

*** Saito is shown checking his arm after waking up from the extraction. There's no mark and he feels no pain. The fact that Cobb and his crew were able to do this without leaving a trace clearly impresses him. How they do it isn't explained, but it's clear they've developed a way to do it painlessly and without marking the target.

*** Looking at the schematics of the device itself, one will notice the 'needle' is more like a pair of very small fangs, presumably small enough to go between the cells.

* ''Harry Brown'' of the eponymous film removes his monitors and goes home after waking in hospital following an emphysema attack.

* Bob Lee Swagger does this to himself in ''[[Shooter]]''; he's been shot and knows he's going into shock from blood loss, so he improvises an IV set using aquarium tubing, plastic soda bottles, and a ''basting needle.'' Once he's bolused himself with a liter or so of homemade sugar-salt solution, he yanks the line out and continues on his merry [[Badass]] way.

 

* Averted in an episode of ''[[Moonlighting]]'', where a hospitalized gangster gets into a fight and drags his IV drip around with him. [[Played for Laughs]], obviously.

* The breathing tube variant also appears in an episode of ''[[Royal Pains]].'' Jill asks Divya to have them take her breathing tube out; Divya explains she can't, and so Jill gives her a distraction so she can remove it herself.

 

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