Indications for obtaining vascular access in children are numerous. Peripheral short-term catheters are safe for giving many intravenous (IV) medications (eg, antibiotics), for providing maintenance IV fluids, and for blood sampling for laboratory tests.
About the Great Depression. The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.
The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. The Great Depression of the 1930s turned the lives of ordinary Americans upside down, leaving an indelible mark on the nation's psyche. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s is award-winning historian T. H. Watkins's lively political, economic, and cultural account of this age of hardship and hope. This companion volume to the public television series The Great Depression tells the story of a decade of disaster, challenge, and change.