This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Undetected DVT Patient Case, highlights the importance of extensive training – particularly understanding contraindications and how to detect potential life-threatening complications – with regard to vascular access.
This deep training and expertise that every Vascular Wellness expert nurse clinician receives was put to use in this clinical case where a PICC line was ordered for an elderly patient in a Skilled Nursing Facility so he could complete his course of antibiotics and hydration. When the Vascular Wellness clinician arrived and performed a detailed patient assessment, she noticed redness and swelling in the right upper extremity where a previous PICC had been. Based on her observations, talking with the patient, and a thorough review of the patient’s medical history, she determined that a PICC was contraindicated.
Having a vascular access team who can pivot in the same visit – whether that pivot results in a prescribed line being downgraded or that an advanced central line is more clinically appropriate – means that your patient can receive prompt care in place at the bedside, reducing patient complications, avoiding transportation costs, and allowing your medical team to focus on their field of practice.
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Nurse Clinicians in Action:
Undetected DVT in Skilled Nursing Patient, a Clinical Case
As Vascular Access Experts, our clinicians are not only trained and precepted in placing Ultrasound Guided PIVs, Midlines, PICCs, and Small and Large bore lines but also in identifying contraindications and comorbidities during physical examinations and medical history reviews. This deep skillset enables our clinicians to help recommend the most clinically appropriate line, which is evident in this NCIA case.
As in this Undetected DVT Patient Case and every patient case, Vascular Wellness is patient-centered, providing expert care whenever and wherever it is needed, 7 days a week, after-hours, weekends & holidays.
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Vascular Wellness offers a comprehensive Vascular Access Education and Training program taught by practicing Vascular Access Board Certified (VA-BC) nurse clinician specialists. Our courses incorporate best practices, national guidelines, and practical experience across various healthcare settings. We provide didactic, simulation, and/or mannequin-based education, along with opportunities for live stick precepting. All of our courses are customized to incorporate your specific equipment, supplies, policies, and participant skill levels. Choosing Vascular Wellness for your education and training needs is a smart and safe decision.
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We excel due to our:
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- Placement of Standard and Advanced Lines
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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.
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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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(1) Comprehensive vascular access services to North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia; and
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