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.
By 1932, one of the bleakest years of the Great Depression, at least one-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed. When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering.ntroduction. The Great Depression in the United States began on October 29, 1929, a day known forever after as âBlack Tuesday,â when the American stock marketâwhich had been roaring steadily upward for almost a decadeâcrashed, plunging the country into its most severe economic downturn yet.