IV Antibiotics have to be hospitalized?

[deece16]

The tool tip popup says: "Required Room: Any office / ward / unit"
The patient is in the doctor's office (General Surgery Office). I feel like you should be able to give someone an IV just sitting in a chair. I mean I give blood sitting in a chair. Either way, one of these is wrong because they are contradicting.

[LN1986]

In real life, needing iv antibiotics is a reason for admitting a patient. It involves getting treatment multiple times a day, usually several days. Giving blood is a one time thing and takes about an hour, so that can be done in a chair.

[LMes]

When a patient requires IV antibiotics, it means that he has a fairly serious infection and is therefore in bad shape. We don't want to just give them their IV and then leave, they need to be monitored for their infection but also because these are long term treatments. We also want to make sure that he doesn't have a reaction to the antibiotics and that the antibiotics are working. On television, the placement of an IV seems so innocuous, but it is in fact an invasive medical procedure with its risks and complications. It is not to be taken lightly, IV management is an art.

Also, be humane, you have a sick person in front of you who is weak, has trouble breathing, doesn't feel well, has a fever, you are not going to leave him sitting on a chair in a hallway with his IV.

For blood donations, they are healthy people, who give blood, so there is no risk of pharmacological reaction since they are not receiving anything. It is an act that does not last long, the amount of blood given is without consequence, at the limit a small drop in blood pressure or a small hypoglycemia but we put their legs in the air and we give a little juice and that's all.

All these reasons make that for a blood donation you remain sitting on a chair but if you have to receive IV antibiotics a bed with a nurse supervision is the most appropriate place.

[deece16]

And while I do appreciate the explanation of what a IV antibiotics treatment entails, I would like the other more misleading and confusing issue to be addressed:

The tool tip popup says: "Required Room: Any office / ward / unit"

This to me means a simple office visit will suffice. It's the "any office" part of this that makes me think this. Anyone care to take this on?

[Pandemonium]

Even for IV with painkillers you get kinda admitted. I was having a bad migraine that didn't go away with my usual migraine meds. I got sent to a single shock room where they put me an IV and I was monitored for a few minutes to check there was no reaction, and then I spent there like 4 hours between the IV administration and letting me rest. But they even made me change clothes and I got sent to get a CT scan and other stuff. So there's more than a wheelchair involved in there.

I think it would be the same that going to the Observation guard here in the game.