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
  • Intravenous drug users who share needles are also at high risk.
    — CBS News, 4 June 2017
  • Valenzuela hooked them up to intravenous drips with electrolytes and put ice on their hands and feet.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Here, a victim’s intravenous drug use or failure to wash hands may come into play.
    — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Other dancers take breaks to rest; Megan takes time off for intravenous fluids.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • His father died of a blood infection from intravenous drug use.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Gay people and intravenous drug users — those most at risk at the time — had been deemed expendable.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The doctors gave her intravenous blood thinners to dissolve the clot.
    — Steve Vernon, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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 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 | [email protected], al, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Letby killed some of the babies by injecting their intravenous lines with air.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 22 Aug. 2023
  • His cause of death was ruled a secondary infection from using intravenous drugs.
    — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • 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
  • In the study, remdesivir was given in three intravenous infusions over three days.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The cases were tied to intravenous use of Opana, a prescription painkiller.
    — Leigh Hedger, Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Trump is also in the middle of a five-day course of the intravenous antiviral remdesivir.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 Oct. 2020
  • She was given intravenous medicine to treat her severe headache, then once again discharged with a plan to see her primary care provider.
    — Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
  • About a third of the patients—18 of 51—were given intravenous fluids.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 29 Apr. 2021
  • All the hatred in me broke through the dam created by our meeting and flooded through me like intravenous glucose.
    — Will Blythe, Esquire, 1 Apr. 2010
  • The drug is approved for ages 6 months and older, given once as an intravenous infusion by a health care provider.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Newer scars with bruising, such as one on his right side of his neck, could have come from medical treatment, such as for an intravenous line.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Intravenous drug use is the most common form of transmission in the United States.
    — By Julie K. Brown, miamiherald, 11 May 2017
  • Carney said he was diagnosed with measles and strep throat at the same time and got intravenous fluids in the ER.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Experts have suggested that the bruising is the result of blood being drawn via an intravenous needle.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Patients in the study received an intravenous infusion of the treatment for 10 days.
    — al, 29 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Thankfully, the doctors were able to flush the kidneys with intravenous fluids to remove the proteins.
    — Ashley Vega, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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

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