Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a surgical rehabilitation patient case that occurred in a Rehabilitation Facility where a patient was recovering from bowel surgery. The patient had developed bilateral swelling from post-operative restraints and a suspected surgical site infection. The facility was unable to obtain blood samples due to the patient’s poor peripheral veins, so they ordered a Midline for antibiotic IV therapy and blood samples with Vascular Wellness. Upon arrival and thorough assessment of the patient and their medical history, the vascular access specialist clinician found co-morbidities that made the prescribed vascular access line contraindicated, and further, identified additional complications that could result.
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Nurse Clinicians in Action Patient Case:
Surgical Rehabilitation Patient Case
Rehabilitative care after hospitalization often specializes in preparing a patient for their return home to independent living. It is especially helpful to have expert consultation at these types of facilities, whether Long Term Acute Care Hospitals or Skilled Nursing Facilities. While these facilities focus on rehabilitation, they may lack specialized clinicians in vascular access. Collaborating with vascular access experts can ensure optimal recommendations and results for patients’ vascular access needs.
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This case is a great example of how a patient’s relatively basic vascular access needs can quickly become more complicated and cause a “Delay Cascade,” the concept that describes how delays in initial diagnosis and treatment can cause increased length of stay and worsening of the patient’s condition.
Having a trusted mobile and on-call vascular access partner whose expertise is demonstrated through experience in placing hundreds of thousands of lines with a 98% success rate and 0% insertion-related infection rate across all lines helped avoid a Delay Cascade, which is a win-win for the patient and the facility.
What makes Vascular Wellness the Right Choice?
▶︎ No Upfront Cost or Commitment
▶︎ 7 Days/Week, After-Hours & Holidays
▶︎ 3 Hour Average Response Time
▶︎ 98+% Success Rate
▶︎ 0% Infection Rate
▶︎ Increased Patient & Clinical Satisfaction
▶︎ Hands-On Client Clinical Training
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We are Vascular Access Specialists. We excel due to our:
- Culture of Patient Care and Client Service
- Clinical Focus on Vascular Access
- Devoted Team of W2 Employee Clinicians
- Placement of Standard and Advanced Lines
- Comprehensive Administrative Support
Vascular Wellness provides mobile, on-site, and on-call standard and advanced vascular access services at the bedside including clinical consultation, line placement, program management, training and education, and infection consulting and prevention.
We regularly work with patients and healthcare partners across diverse settings such as Hospitals, Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals, Hospital at Home programs, Skilled Nursing Facilities and CCRCs, Surgical & Outpatient Centers, Hospice, and At-Home. Vascular Wellness provides the highest quality and most innovative, effective, and timely vascular access services improving patient outcomes, reducing costs, and strengthening infection control.
We place the right line at the right time, the first time.
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NURSE CLINICIANS IN ACTION case summaries involve challenging situations or intriguing clinical presentations where Vascular Wellness was able to create clinically appropriate access promptly, minimize sticks, and place the right line at the right time, the first time.
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Vascular Wellness provides:
(1) Comprehensive vascular access services to North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia; and
(2) Customized vascular access services to Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia; and
(3) Support vascular access services to Ohio and Kentucky.
