piggyback device
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piggyback device
Critical care A device used to optimize the IV delivery of fluids and drugs being infused at different rates; in PBDs, the reservoir and the valve controlling the rate of delivery are separate, while the delivery port–eg, an IV access line is sharedMcGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.