I wrote a wiki for intravenous_drip and added it to some posts a while ago, but I'm not sure if my definition and usage of the tag is 100% correct. Should it only be tagged when it is in use, as in a depiction of a stand holding a saline bag with a tube inserted into a character? Or would it be fine to tag just the equipment on its own, without it being used on a character?

I'm also uncertain about what should be done with the saline tag. I guess that could be tagged alongside or separately from intravenous_drip where appropriate. Saline bags can be depicted separately from IV drips and while unusual, an IV drip isn't always depicted with an IV drip, like this image.

Then again, could intravenous_drip just be the act of intravenous therapy via drip chamber itself, regardless of the specific equipment used? If so, I imagine intravenous_drip and saline would be comparable to injection and syringe. Where saline/syringe is for the equipment, while intravenous_drip/injection is for the act?

JAKXXX3 said:
I wrote a wiki for intravenous_drip and added it to some posts a while ago, but I'm not sure if my definition and usage of the tag is 100% correct. Should it only be tagged when it is in use, as in a depiction of a stand holding a saline bag with a tube inserted into a character? Or would it be fine to tag just the equipment on its own, without it being used on a character?

I'm also uncertain about what should be done with the saline tag. I guess that could be tagged alongside or separately from intravenous_drip where appropriate. Saline bags can be depicted separately from IV drips and while unusual, an IV drip isn't always depicted with an IV drip, like this image.

Then again, could intravenous_drip just be the act of intravenous therapy via drip chamber itself, regardless of the specific equipment used? If so, I imagine intravenous_drip and saline would be comparable to injection and syringe. Where saline/syringe is for the equipment, while intravenous_drip/injection is for the act?

I'd say that it's definitely much more important to tag for the case where a character actually has an IV in - I think a user is much more likely to want to identify images that have a character getting a drip, rather than wanting to specifically find any image that has an IV stand in the background.

I think the Equipment/Usage distinction you propose is a pretty good one, but I think your current definition of intravenous_drip is too narrow. I'd suggest expanding intravenous_drip to cover basically *any* ocurrence of "character has a tube stuck in them which appears to be gradually delivering something, presumably via a catheter, into their veins", without needing the actual drip stand or IV bag to be visible. (This is not an uncommon thing to see in some more medical/lab-themed stuff - example: post #1652584)