Interosseous or IO access, our primary goal to deliver cardiac arrest medications is going to be peripheral IV. However, if we can't get a peripheral IV, we need to go IO or enter osseous. Basically, what that means is we're just going to drill into their bone marrow and provide medications and fluid resuscitation through that port. During this video, pay close attention, there's different areas as to where we can introduce that needle to go into the bone marrow. But one thing to keep in mind is it's short term it's for emergency use only usually less than 24 hours until we can find other type of vascular access whether it's an A line or or something like that. So I O is definitely indicated if we can get a peripheral IV.

And also keep in mind that any medication that we're talking about during the ACLs class, if you can push it IV, you can push it i o