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Bilateral Arm Amputation Requires Emergent Vascular Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 26

Bilateral Arm Amputation Requires Emergent Vascular Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 26

Bilateral Arm Amputation Requires Emergent Vascular Access describes how a teen who suffered a life-threatening accident with a woodchipper, resulting in both arms severed just above the elbow, required emergent and lifesaving vascular access in the Emergency Department of the hospital. Bilateral...

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Fracture and Extravasation Complicates Vascular Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 25

Fracture and Extravasation Complicates Vascular Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 25

Fracture and Extravasation Complicates Vascular Access involves a case where a patient’s need for vascular access for a blood transfusion was complicated by a fracture and a Vancomycin extravasation, which the facility thought was a tape allergy, and multiple failed attempts at vascular access....

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