How to Use intravenous in a Sentence

intravenous

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• In the young man's case, a week's stay in the hospital and intravenous antibiotics cleared things up.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2023
• The midnight mark came after prison workers couldn’t start intravenous lines for the two men who were set to die on those nights.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 28 Dec. 2022
• They are given by intravenous infusion and come with a risk of bleeding or swelling in the brain.
  — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• Other dancers take breaks to rest; Megan takes time off for intravenous fluids.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2022
• Because of a shortage of poles for intravenous fluid bags, nurses sometimes have to hang the bags from the walls and curtains.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• Beethoven did not use intravenous drugs, Meredith said.
  — Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
• Letby killed some of the babies by injecting their intravenous lines with air.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 22 Aug. 2023
• His father died of a blood infection from intravenous drug use.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Ten days later, his lungs were failing, his face was bloated from litres of intravenous fluid, and his hands and feet had begun to cool.
  — Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
• That disease spread rapidly among gay men and intravenous-drug users in the 1980s in part because the marginalization of these groups led to a weak public-health response.
  — Denise Roland and Jon Kamp, WSJ, 26 June 2022
• After more than a decade of intravenous drug use, Shuler found himself in a life-or-death situation much like Craig’s.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2023
• Other parts of the video show an intravenous drip next to the bed as well as an image of al-Sayid's Israeli identification card.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, ajc, 28 June 2022
• The victim, court documents show, was at the home for a mobile intravenous treatment and was found wounded by the homeowners on their steps.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• The baby was admitted to the hospital and was treated with intravenous antibiotics for 21 days, the CDC said.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
• Human subjects who got an intravenous drip of GLP-1 ate 12 percent less at a lunch buffet than those who got a placebo.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Instead of a quick visit, the doctors gave him a CT scan, OxyContin for the pain and bag after bag of intravenous antibiotics.
  — Sharon Otterman Justin J Wee, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• His cause of death was ruled a secondary infection from using intravenous drugs.
  — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Smith’s left arm, which was shown connected to intravenous tubes in earlier posts, was now covered with a white bandage.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• The protocol states that if the veins are such that intravenous access cannot be provided, the team will perform a central line procedure.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 27 Oct. 2022
• When his condition worsened, a doctor put him on an intravenous drip.
  — Fox News, 31 Oct. 2022
• Nurses in green scrubs attached bags of intravenous hydration fluids to the arms of even the tiniest patients as fans whirled and two air conditioners dripped and chugged.
  — Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
• As part of the trial, they were given nine doses of a drug called intravenous dostarlimab, which is designed to block a specific cancer cell protein.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 9 June 2022
• It was known mostly as a gay man's disease, an intravenous drug user's disease, a disease that took lives in rapid succession and in despair.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2022
• Gulick said people who have received intravenous remdesivir thus far have not seen their symptoms rebound in the days or weeks following the treatment the way people have with Paxlovid.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2022
• Alyssa endured more than two years of chemotherapy treatments through a combination of pills, intravenous drips and spinal taps.
  — Rich Scherr, Baltimore Sun, 4 Oct. 2022
• In extreme cases, the CDC recommends seeking intravenous fluids from a health care provider.
  — Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• That night, a team of people tried and repeatedly failed to insert an intravenous line into Mr. Smith’s arms and hands and, eventually, a vein near his heart.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• The only other available option is an intravenous injection that the FDA approved in 2019.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Reese Waters and Jay Pal played despite suffering from the flu and receiving pre-game intravenous fluids.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• There is a treatment that can be given via intravenous injection at a hospital, but zuranolone is the first pill that can be taken at home.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024