Vidacare Corporation Release: Life-Saving Modern Technology Offers New Tool to Battle Cholera in Haiti

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the early 1980s in India, an American pediatrician witnessed clinicians using intraosseous (inside the bone, also called IO) access to infuse fluids and drugs into the victims of a devastating cholera outbreak, and his subsequent advocacy of IO infusion brought the practice into the mainstream for pediatric patients. However, IO was considered too difficult for most adult patients until the mid-2000s, when Vidacare Corporation pioneered the EZ-IO Intraosseous Infusion System, now widely considered the leading technology to establish IO for all patients in need of intraosseous access.