Access (disambiguation)

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Access stands for:

medical:

  • Vascular access
    • venous access for the application of medication, infusions, for taking blood and inserting instruments
    • arterial access for measuring blood pressure, taking blood and introducing instruments
    • intraosseous access to the patient's venous system indirectly via the bone marrow
  • surgical access, the appropriate opening of the body to perform an operative measure, see surgery (medicine)


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