Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A virtual reality intervention called “Bear Blast” significantly decreased pain and anxiety among children and ...

A health care tool for an overlooked public health problemFear of needles is one of health care’s most common, and most ...

A new prototype device for rapid and safe IV insertion reduces pain in hospitalized children. The semi-automatic handheld device, called SAGIV, identifies veins, inserts a needle and withdraws it in a ...

The University of Miami helps turn clinical breakthroughs into entrepreneurial success. For Eric Peterson, M.D., creating start-ups to market medical inventions that enhance patient care is as ...

Researchers measured child-reported pain, heart rate, parent and healthcare provider satisfaction, ease of procedure performance and parental anxiety for 42 children receiving intravenous placement.

Intravenous (IV) injection is a method commonly used in patient’s treatment worldwide as it induces rapid effects and allows treatment through continuous administration of medication by directly ...

There is good lot of training and experience which is needed while inserting IV catheters, especially when working with the elderly and young children. In this area, errors happen quite often which ...

Children who listened to music while an IV needle was inserted into their arms were less stressed than kids who didn’t listen to music, in a new study from Canada. “We were really looking to see if ...