How to Use intravenous in a Sentence

intravenous

adjective
  • The only sound is the click of the intravenous ketamine pump.
    — J.p. Lawrence, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Vines said that intravenous drug users are at high risk.
    — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • About a third of the patients—18 of 51—were given intravenous fluids.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 29 Apr. 2021
  • An intravenous tube hangs on a wall in the basement of the stadium used by ISIS as a jail.
    — TIME.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Valenzuela hooked them up to intravenous drips with electrolytes and put ice on their hands and feet.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • 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 | Ihrynkiw@al.com, 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
  • The cases were tied to intravenous use of Opana, a prescription painkiller.
    — Leigh Hedger, Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The medical team tried to place the intravenous line anyway.
    — Amanda Calhoun, Time, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Gay people and intravenous drug users — those most at risk at the time — had been deemed expendable.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Other dancers take breaks to rest; Megan takes time off for intravenous fluids.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • Trump is also in the middle of a five-day course of the intravenous antiviral remdesivir.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Here, a victim’s intravenous drug use or failure to wash hands may come into play.
    — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Beethoven did not use intravenous drugs, Meredith said.
    — Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • After health care providers gave him some intravenous fluids, took a chest X-ray and prescribed steroids and an inhaler, he was sent home.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Letby killed some of the babies by injecting their intravenous lines with air.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Patients in the study received an intravenous infusion of the treatment for 10 days.
    — al, 29 Apr. 2020
  • His father died of a blood infection from intravenous drug use.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Taft, unable to find a vein to start an intravenous line, drilled a needle into the marrow of the man’s leg bone, hoping to stabilize him.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • In the study, remdesivir was given in three intravenous infusions over three days.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • At one point, Northrop was allegedly found sitting outside of the hospital with an intravenous line still in place, the suit claims.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
  • In late 2014, Austin first reported an outbreak of new HIV cases linked to intravenous drug use.
    — Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Treatment may vary but can include providing oxygen through a nasal tube or mask, intravenous fluids and treatment of the underlying cause of the infection.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • One social media user speculated that the bruising could be a result of some kind of an intravenous therapy (IV).
    — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025

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