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I've never heard of a neck IV. never seen one. I don't work in medicine but I am more of a professional patient. Have lived at least a year and a half of my life inside a hospital (yes I have done the maths properly) to the point where said hospital had a "this is [whatever my username at the moment is]'s room" for like ten years on the door, and if I got admitted, it was my room as soon as it was vacant.
(it was a nice single room in the corner with a good view of the big tree across the parking lot and had an adjoining single room connected by accordion wall. If it was a slow week in the hospital they'd let me open up the accordion, push the other gurney to the wall and have a human sized room instead of a prisoner sized room. They were wonderfully accommodating)
Anyways my point is, if they are at the point of having to start a line in the neck, they'd probably do what's called a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) line (run a larger catheter from an arm or leg to the heart, used for longer term stays or more caustic liquid medications) or a heart port (used for more caustic medications than PICC lines) instead. The jugular vein I would think has too much pressure for a vein to accept an IV catheter without springing one hell of a leak, but i am only an advanced layperson. They did accidentally start going up my carotid instead of down to my aorta when placing my PICC all those years ago, but it didn't leave a bruise and I doubt it would. Also we'd see iv ports on his arm (mine hung down to my wrist). But you never know.
One procedure would be a neck arterial shunt to try and alleviate dementia symptons from poor brain blood flow.