What type of device goes in the ankle during cardiac arrest??

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Wondering if any of you cardiac/CCU nurses can tell me what this may be...

My husband's coworker was found unconscious earlier this week at work and when the EMS arrived they immediately went into CPR/defib, IV drugs, etc...but they also put a device of some sort of device into the ankle and it had a little needle on the end of it....

I'm guessing it was some sort of IO IV...:unsure:

Specializes in Quality, Cardiac Stepdown, MICU.

My last recert they are pounding the IOs heavy (no pun intended lol), really advocating them because how easy is it to start a peripheral on someone who's coding and has no blood pressure to begin with?

That said, I've seen it done on the floor once. I need to poll my coworkers and see how comfortable they'd be starting one if it was needed.

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