Infusion Therapy

Infusion therapy is when medication or fluids are administered through a needle or catheter. It’s a way of delivering medication that can’t be taken orally, or that need to be dispensed at a controlled pace. Infusion therapy is the administration of medication or fluids in a controlled method. It’s done most often intravenously or subcutaneously. Since the timing can be controlled, it’s used to deliver chemotherapy drugs and other medications that need to enter the system slowly. It can also be used to deliver drugs into the bloodstream quickly in the case of a life-threatening emergency. Infusion therapy is used to dispense many treatments for a wide variety of conditions. It’s typically administered by nurses or other trained healthcare providers, usually in a clinical setting.