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...
PICC Services Articles
Air Embolism Causes, Prevention, and Management
Air Embolism Symptoms and Management highlights common causes, risks, identification and best practices in preventing and treating intravenous air embolisms. Air embolisms can occur in the vein as a venous air embolism, or in an artery as an arterial air embolism. Both can be a complication of a...
Customized At-Home Vascular Access Solution – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 36
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 –...
Empathy and Compassion Beyond the Procedure – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 34
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...
Clinician Reduces Skilled Nursing Treatment Cost – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 32
Clinician Reduces Skilled Nursing Treatment Cost describes how a patient in a Skilled Nursing Facility needed fluid for dehydration, but her difficult IV access (DIVA) condition resulted in multiple failed attempts at placing a Peripheral IV (PIV) by the local, on-site treatment team, requiring...
Implanted Port Obstructs PICC Insertion – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 29
Implanted Port Obstructs PICC Insertion illustrates how our Vascular Access Specialist determined that her attempted PICC insertion was obstructed by an implanted port, and the clinician was able to create and implement a solution to meet the vascular access needs of the patient. Implanted Port...
Vascular Access with Bilateral Fistulas – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 27
Vascular Access with Bilateral Fistulas describes how a PICC line for antibiotics was prescribed for a patient, but during the pre-procedure patient assessment, the Vascular Wellness clinician discovered the patient had bilateral fistulas, making access in the upper extremities contraindicated....
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...
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....
Clotted Fistula Requires Urgent Vas-Cath – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 24
Clotted Fistula Requires Urgent Vas-Cath describes how a Vascular Access clinician placed a Vas Cath, or Temporary Dialysis Catheter, at the bedside in a patient whose fistula clotted off in the middle of dialysis and needed emergent Temporary Dialysis access. Clotted Fistula Requires Urgent...
Emergent Temporary Dialysis Catheter – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 23
Emergent Temporary Dialysis Catheter at the Bedside describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician placed a Vas-Cath at the Bedside in a critically ill patient in need of emergent dialysis when no transportation options were available, enabling prompt hemodialysis. Emergent Temporary Dialysis...
Vascular Access for Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 22
Vascular Access for Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician notices an atrial fibrillation episode while placing a PICC line in an anxious quadruple bypass patient and promptly contacts the treating physician for additional medical attention, accelerating...
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