Previous PIVs Fail Repeatedly highlights a patient case involving an elderly man in a Skilled Nursing Home who needed long-term IV antibiotics to treat pneumonia. The facility ordered a peripheral IV (PIV), however, each new PIV failed within a day, delaying therapy and leaving the patient...
Vascath Exchanged to Tunneled Permcath describes a case where a patient in an LTACH who had suffered many serious injuries in a motor vehicle accident needed emergent dialysis and Vascular Wellness promptly placed a Vascath; then ten days later, a Tunneled Permcath was ordered after determining...
Anxious Patient Needs Hemodialysis describes how Vascular Wellness helped an anxious patient, who needed extra time and assistance, to become calm enough for the nurse clinician to place a Vascath at the patient's bedside so she could receive urgently needed hemodialysis. Anxious Patient Needs...
Numerous IV Medications for Complex Patient describes a case where a facility ordered a vascular access consult for a DIVA patient with End Stage Renal Disease who had several other serious conditions and needed vascular access for administration of numerous IV medications for this complex...
Prescribed PICC Unnecessary at SNF involves a case at a SNF (ie, Skilled Nursing Facility) where a PICC was ordered to administer two weeks of IV antibiotics, however after reviewing the medical history and visually assessing the patient, the Vascular Wellness clinician determined that the...
Patient Codes Repeatedly, Needs Access describes how a hospital patient who was resuscitated after coding twice was moved to the ICU and needed fluids and vasopressors, but the care team was unable to achieve vascular access. Patient Codes Repeatedly, Needs Access – Clinical Case A Vascular...
Tunneled Permcath in LTACH Patient describes how an LTACH patient with chronic kidney disease and respiratory failure, as well as a complex medical history that included lower bilateral DVTs and a pacemaker, needed an Acute/Temp Vascath replaced with a Tunneled Central Line Permcath for...
Undetected DVT in Skilled Nursing Patient describes how an elderly patient in a Skilled Nursing Facility needed a replacement PICC line so he could complete his course of antibiotics and hydration, but the arm where the previous PICC was placed was swollen and red. Undetected DVT in Skilled...
Customized At-Home Vascular Access Solution highlights the clinical case of a patient who needed reliable, long-term vascular access for IV medication and how Vascular Wellness improves patient care with customized solutions regardless of the setting. Customized At-Home Vascular Access Solution –...
Hospital at Home Difficult Sticks highlights a Hospital at Home patient who needed vascular access for labs, but their depleted veins made obtaining vascular access difficult, and resulted in repeated and painful attempts that were unfortunately unsuccessful. The Hospital at Home program is one of...
Empathy and Compassion Beyond the Procedure describes how a patient, who had relied on Vascular Wellness to achieve vascular access numerous times over almost nine years due to her complex medical issues and difficult IV access condition, passed away not alone, but rather in the company of her...
Permcath at Patient’s Bedside describes how a patient in a hospital ICU needed abdominal surgery, but his critical condition resulted in the need for a Permcath so he could be discharged and receive six weeks of hemodialysis, and then return stronger and ready for surgery. Permcath at Patient’s...
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