Reducing risks from intravenous cannulae

The pathologist, of whatever specialty, is as much a part of the hospital ward or outpatient department as he is of the laboratory. It is the pathologist to whom the clinicians are increasingly turning for new directions in the management of such conditions as cancer, metabolic diseases, and the chronic immunological disorders. It is the pathologists who as physicians with experience of laboratory medicine are pinpointing the therapeutic successes and failures and who are providing new reagents with which to attempt fresh approaches.