Is Sterilized Adhesive Taping a Good Practice?

The literature on securing IVs is less exciting these days so it used to be the case that clinicians would use what we call chevrons to secure IVs to skin. We now have really good IV tegadearms and those are always sterile when you open them so that is a great thing to put in close contact to that IV skin interface. You're not actually putting tape at the area where it can easily cause an infection, but just supporting like to make a loop with the IV or maybe you're anchoring the IV at multiple places on the patient's body. The fastest segment of medical adhesives are adhesive used to secureIVsso the IV tegaterms