Intraosseous and intravenous vascular access routes are used routinely in treating patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but how one method compares with the other has been unclear.

OBJECTIVE: For decades, intraosseous (IO) access has been a standard of care for pediatric emergencies in the absence of conventional intravenous access. After the recent introduction of a battery ...

The study randomly assigned 6,082 adult cardiac arrest patients to receive drugs through either the bone (intraosseous) or vein (intravenous) routes. Time of Drug Delivery: The study found no ...