help!!!!

[KTMOHN]

hi to all of you-hope you have pleasant summer breezes where you are.  It is H-O-T-T here (southwest USA)-- have a question-have been asked to provide guidance to a Pediatric Nursing Manager who is deliberating  a change in their policy to allow scalp IVs as a back-up site for peripheral IV placements.  Many facilities here,  because of a past history littered with incidents of  osteomyelitis of the skull in young babies have made the scalp taboo.  I have looked in my references, and as a mother I know what I would tell someone who suggested putting an IV in my baby's head-but I can't find much information or guidance in the journals about this process-any ideas out there?  The INS Standards don't mention scalp IVs in their Standard about sites-but they don't preclude it either.  Thanks in advance for any morsel you can toss my way-Kathy Mohn-Las Vegas