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,...
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...
Vascular Access for Sepsis Protocol describes how a Skilled Nursing Facility resident with a fever of unknown origin was transported to the Emergency Department where she was put on the sepsis protocol for early diagnosis and treatment, and needed difficult-to-obtain...
