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 Rehabilitation Hospital (LTACH). Unfortunately, the medical team was unsuccessful in gaining new vascular access, and after nearly two days, the situation became critical. Transporting him to another facility for a surgical procedure by an Interventional Radiology team was not an option, so Vascular Wellness was contacted, and a clinician arrived within three hours to place a Temporary Dialysis Catheter, or Vascath, at the patient’s bedside.
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Nurse Clinicians in Action Patient Case:
Clotted Fistula Requires Urgent Vascath
Vascath for Dialysis
Having a specialized vascular access partner who is skilled in handling complex and emergent procedures, such as the placement of dialysis catheters at the bedside, seven days a week, including after-hours, weekends, and holidays, greatly enhances our client’s ability to quickly and successfully treat patients. Vascular access service at the bedside eliminates the need for transportation to another facility, as well as the costs associated with it. It helps improve patient outcomes, satisfaction, and Press Ganey scores, especially when the result is reduced hospital length of stay.
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National Minority Health Month brings awareness to the importance of improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations and reducing health disparities.
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- >98% success rate
- 3-hour average response
- 24/7 call center
- 7 days/week, including nights, weekends & holidays
- 0% insertion-related infection rate
- Large & small bore lines
- Dialysis catheters
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- Culture of Patient Care and Client Service
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- Devoted Team of W2 Employee Clinicians
- Placement of Standard and Advanced Lines
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Vascular Wellness provides mobile, on-site, and on-call standard and advanced vascular access services at the bedside including clinical consultation, line placement, program management, training and education, and infection consulting and prevention.
Serving hundreds of thousands of patients across diverse settings such as hospitals, long term acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, surgical and outpatient centers, hospice, and at-home, Vascular Wellness provides the highest quality and most innovative, effective, and timely vascular access services improving patient outcomes, reducing costs, and strengthening infection control.
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NURSE CLINICIANS IN ACTION case summaries involve challenging situations or intriguing clinical presentations where Vascular Wellness was able to create clinically appropriate access promptly, minimize sticks, and place the right line at the right time, the first time.
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(1) Comprehensive vascular access services to North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia; and
(2) Customized vascular access services to Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia; and
(3) Support vascular access services to Ohio and Kentucky.
