Knowing an IV’s flow rate — the volume of fluid entering the patient each second or minute — is crucial to delivering the right amount of medication at the right time. A NIST intern spent the summer helping us better understand these important flows. 🔗 ↧ Lasers and Math Can Help Doctors Deliver Just the Right Amount of M... Understanding how fast or slow fluids flow is vital to important tasks, such as IV drug delivery. A NIST intern used specialized mathematical models to better understand it.