A new battery-powered drill is helping paramedics save lives, but it also might be scaring patients. The handheld device makes injecting fluids and drugs quicker during many high-stress emergencies.

NEWARK — Getting drugs or fluids into critically injured patients fast can mean the difference between life and death. But finding a vein for an intravenous line can be seemingly impossible, such as ...

As an emergency room physician, Dr. Larry Miller knew firsthand the difficulties of trying to insert an IV in a patient who had gone into shock or who had suffered a heart attack. The body shuts off ...

It sounds like something that might be featured in the next sequel in the "Saw" horror series - a battery-powered drill that bores right into the bone. But in reality, the EZ-IO is a life-saving ...

It sounds like something that might be featured in Saw 5 – a battery-powered drill that bores right into the bone. But in reality, the EZ-IO is a life-saving device used to establish a fluid or ...

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CHARLESTON — The EZ-IO Drill looks and handles like a handheld power drill, but it is not used for home improvements. The drill is a medical device that enables paramedics to drill into a patient’s ...

The Conway Fire Department will be using a new tool when responding to those with a medical emergency, and it looks a little like a drill. The EZ-IO Intraosseous Infusion System is a device that ...