cannula

It also called on the health service to record parental concerns, review workloads for ambulance crews, and review training around cannula, vascular access insertion, and intravenous therapy.

Porters have to wheel beds through this open space, between patients being treated in chairs and nurses kneeling on the floor to remove cannulas.

The duties included blood monitoring, inserting cannulas and doing echocardiograms, which are scans used to look at the heart and nearby blood vessels.

The insulin pump is a small device - around the size of a deck of cards - which supplies a continuous flow of longer-acting insulin through a cannula underneath the skin.

However, this requires a spinal tap with a cannula -- an invasive procedure with rare complications.