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{{quote|"You know those cords that connect to your arm whenever you're in the hospital? They're apparently called IV cords and it's a [[Buffy-Speak|drippy thingy]] that keeps you alive. I've actually noticed this more than once, but whenever a person (usually an [[Action Hero]]) finds him/herself in a medical room and hospitalized, the very first thing that they do to "escape" the room is to pull the IV cord. It's directly connected to your arm's vein, but it apparently doesn't hurt at all; and it could also kill you if you do that."
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{{quote|"Why is it that whenever someone wakes up in a hospital, the ''first'' thing they do is pull the IV out of their arm? Maybe it was ''keeping them alive!''"
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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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
* Faith in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', although in her case it might not just be a matter of [[Badass|Bad Assery]] but also of not particularly ''caring'' what happens to her.
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* Naturally, any TV series featuring an emergency department will show this at least once; notable examples include ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' and ''[[ER]]''.
* 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.
* In [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the
* In an episode of ''[[Psych]]'', Henry Spencer, not wanting his son to embarrass him by this whole "barely poisoned" foolishness (thus resulting in his son languishing in a hospital rather than solving the case) yanks the IV out of Shawn's arm. Notably, it has quite painful results.
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