Today's Vascular Wellness Voice features a patient case that describes how a pediatric DIVA patient with Trisomy 18 (a rare genetic disorder) needed vascular access for antibiotics. The unit nurses made several attempts to place a PIV but were unsuccessful, and the pediatric patient became very...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice features a permcath patient case that describes how a patient in a hospital ICU needed abdominal surgery, but his critical condition resulted in the need for a Permcath (also known as a Tunneled Dialysis Catheter) so he could be discharged and receive six weeks of...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice features a surgical rehabilitation patient case that occurred in a Rehabilitation Facility where a patient was recovering from bowel surgery. The patient had developed bilateral swelling from post-operative restraints and a suspected surgical site...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice features a Wellness Wednesday case that took place in a Hospital Emergency Department where the patient needed vascular access to commence the sepsis protocol of treatment. Unfortunately, the patient was not only dehydrated but also severely contracted in the...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice features a Wellness Wednesday case that took place in a Skilled Nursing Facility where the patient needed a vascular access device placed for IV antibiotic therapy. The facility contacted Vascular Wellness to place a PICC line. However, during a thorough examination...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice demonstrates how having a vascular access team with a rapid response provides life-saving vascular access. This Wellness Wednesday case is about a teen patient who suffered life-threatening bilateral arm amputation in an accident was admitted to the trauma unit with...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice demonstrates why Vascular Access Expertise Matters. We were recently presented with a case in which a hospital patient with a fracture was receiving Vancomycin and needed additional vascular access for a blood transfusion. The hospital team had multiple failed...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice features a Nurse Clinicians in Action Clotted Fistula Patient Case. In this clinical case, a patient's fistula clotted in the middle of dialysis and required emergent temporary dialysis access. The patient was recovering from major surgery in a Long-Term Acute Care...
Recognizing National Kidney month, today’s focus is on Temporary Dialysis Catheters (or Vascaths), and how nursed-placed lines at the bedside improve patient outcomes and the patient experience. In an emergent situation like the one in the clinical case summary below - particularly where...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice is a Wellness Wednesday Nurse Clinicians in Action Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient Case that describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician notices an atrial fibrillation episode while placing a PICC line in an anxious quadruple bypass patient. This case story exhibits...
Today's Vascular Wellness Voice is a Wellness Wednesday Nurse Clinicians in Action case story about a PICU Patient needing Emergent Vascular Access. This two-month-old patient was suffering from RSV and pneumonia and needed additional Vascular Access. This case story describes our unmatched...
In today's Vascular Wellness Voice we bring you a new Nurse Clinicians in Action series spotlight. Today's case story demonstrates how Vascular Wellness clinicians provide vascular access expertise in various settings and across a myriad of patient conditions. In this case, an expert assessment...
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