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Banana bag
Banana bag: hospital slang for a 1-liter IV drip with thiamine 100 mg, folic acid 1 mg, magnesium 1-2 g, and a multivitamin, given for alcohol-related malnutrition; guidelines now favor higher-dose thiamine instead.
Fluid Therapy
Fluid therapy is a medical treatment that restores the volume and composition of body fluids to normal water-electrolyte balance, given intravenously, orally, by gavage, or under the skin.
Home Parenteral Nutrition
Home total parenteral nutrition (HPN) delivers complete intravenous nutrition at home via a central catheter for chronic intestinal failure. Pioneered in the late 1960s by Scribner, Shils, and Dudrick; about 32,000 US users annually; survival depends on underlying disease.
Intravenous sugar solution
Intravenous sugar solution (dextrose or glucose IV infusion, e.g. D5W): sterile 5% glucose in water supplying calories and water, first infused in 1896; physiologically hypotonic after metabolism, with hyponatremia and hyperglycemia as key risks.
Intravenous therapy
Intravenous therapy, also known as IV therapy or an intravenous drip, is a medical technique that delivers fluids, medications, nutrition, or blood products directly into a vein, bypassing the gut.
Parenteral nutrition
Parenteral nutrition (PN), formerly total parenteral nutrition (TPN), is intravenous feeding via central or peripheral catheter for patients whose GI tract cannot meet nutritional needs; developed clinically by Stanley Dudrick in 1968, with home PN for chronic intestinal failure.
Ringer's lactate solution
Ringer's lactate solution (Hartmann's solution, compound sodium lactate) is a balanced isotonic IV crystalloid with sodium ~130 mmol/L, potassium, calcium, and lactate buffer, used for resuscitation, burns, and critical care.
Saline (medicine)
Saline (medicine): 0.9% sodium chloride injection, also called normal saline, an intravenous crystalloid with 154 mEq/L each of sodium and chloride; introduced in the 1832 cholera epidemic, causes hyperchloremic acidosis in large volumes, increasingly replaced by balanced crystalloids.
Syringe pump
A syringe pump is a motor-driven device that pushes a syringe plunger to deliver fluid at a precisely controlled flow rate, used clinically for drug infusion and in laboratories.
Volume expander
Volume expander: intravenous crystalloid or colloid fluids (albumin, gelatin, dextran, hydroxyethyl starch) used to restore intravascular volume in hypovolemia and shock; colloids expand more per liter but HES is now EU-suspended and FDA-boxed-warned.