What does IV mean after a doctors name

The following list can assist you in decoding what the alphabet soup of abbreviations on your doctor's business card mean:Intravenous therapy is a method of delivering medications, nutritional support and hydration into the body via an infusion.Iv therapy is administered in a hospital or clinical setting where the patient is made to feel comfortable and encouraged to relax during treatment.The abbreviation of facs after a doctor's name means, fellow of the american college of surgeons.(em) certificate of the college of family physicians (emergency medicine) physicians who complete the examination of special competence in emergency medicine administered by the college of family physicians of canada may use this designation.This shorthand can include shortening (making less lengthy) of longer disease names, by cutting the word down to its base (the latin or greek part that makes it).