This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Vascath and Tunneled Permcath Patient Case, 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. Ten days later, the care team...
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Anxious Patient Requires Hemodialysis, describes a case where an elderly patient who was newly diagnosed with ERSD (end-stage renal disease) was hospitalized and in need of emergent dialysis to address an acute kidney injury superimposed on chronic kidney disease....
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Complex Patient Needs Numerous IV Medications, describes a case where a facility ordered a vascular access consult for Vascular Wellness to determine which central line was best for a DIVA patient with several serious conditions, including end stage renal disease....
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Unnecessary PICC Prescribed - SNF Patient Case, highlights a case at a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) 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...
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Patient Codes - Clinical Case, demonstrates why having a vascular access partner who is not rushed or incentivized to get to the “next case,” and has deep expertise in difficult IV access, matters. In this Patient Case, a Vascular Wellness vascular access clinician...
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Tunneled Permcath Patient Case, highlights how a patient who needed to have an Acute/Temp Vascath replaced with a Tunneled Permcath for hemodialysis was able to have the procedure performed right away, and without ever leaving the bed or the room. Within a few...
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...
This month's Wellness Wednesday, an At-Home Vascular Access Patient Case, highlights the clinical situation of a patient who needed a PICC line for long-term vascular access for IV medication. Vascular Wellness placed the line, but even with detailed written and video instructions on how to care...
March is National Kidney Month and Vascular Wellness is making dialysis treatment accessible for all. This month, and every month, we focus on enabling better and faster access to treatment options such as Dialysis Catheters for patients with Kidney Disease.Kidney disease affects 37 million people...
Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story highlights a Hospital at Home - Difficult IV Access patient who needed vascular access for labs, but their depleted veins resulted in difficult vascular access and nearly a dozen painful and unsuccessful attempts. Vascular access is a critical component in...
Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story is a little different, it's an Empathy and Compassion Patient Story. We typically feature clinical cases and treatment, but today we want to focus on our holistic patient and family care approach, and how this sets us apart. This patient's complex medical...
Reducing Treatment Costs for Skilled Nursing is a Nurse Clinicians in Action case that 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...
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