Hospital at Home Difficult Sticks – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 35
Hospital at Home Difficult Sticks highlights a Hospital at Home patient who needed vascular access for labs, but their depleted veins made obtaining vascular access difficult, and resulted in repeated and painful attempts that were unfortunately unsuccessful. The...
Clotted Fistula Patient Case
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...
Faster Access to Dialysis
Tunneled central catheters, also known as Perm caths, can be small bore or large bore lines, and are used when vascular access is needed over a long period of time (anywhere from two weeks to several months). This makes them a good solution when clinically indicated for hemodialysis during renal (kidney) failure, as well as chemotherapy, antibiotics, parenteral nutrition and more.
Nurse-placed Dialysis Catheters at the Bedside
Patients with acute or chronic kidney disease can need different types of Dialysis Catheters – Acute/Temp Vascaths and Tunneled Permcaths. Having a skilled partner who can perform these procedures as soon as they are clinically indicated, without delay – and at the patient’s bedside – can improve patient outcomes and decrease hospital and patient costs significantly.
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....
Temporary Dialysis Catheters at the Bedside
Vascular Access Nurse Placed Temporary Dialysis Catheters at the bedside enable prompt and effective dialysis treatment and can efficiently supplement the reach and impact of any Vascular Surgery, Interventional Radiology, or Nephrology department or team. Delivery of...