dialysis Archives

Dialysis Catheter, Mid-Thigh Femoral in Emergency Department – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 57

Dialysis Catheter, Mid-Thigh Femoral in Emergency Department describes a patient who came to the Emergency Department from a nursing home with a number of medical issues, including renal failure, and needed vascular access for hemodialysis. Dialysis Catheter,...

Urgent Vascath and Axillary Line – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 56

Urgent Vascath and Axillary Line describes a critically ill ICU patient in a Trauma Hospital who urgently needed a temporary dialysis catheter for hemodialysis treatment, as she was diagnosed with Diabetic Ketoacidosis (a severe, life-threatening complication with...

PICC changed to Internal Jugular on Dialysis Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 55

PICC changed to Internal Jugular on Dialysis Patient describes an Emergency Department patient with chronic heart failure and renal disease who was prescribed a PICC line for administration of Milrinone, but the patient’s comorbidities made this a challenging and...

Same Day Tunneled Permcath at the Bedside – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 53

Same Day Tunneled Permcath at the Bedside highlights a case where a patient with several medical conditions had accidentally removed his temporary dialysis catheter and the facility ordered a replacement Permcath, as the patient now needed long-term dialysis. Same Day...

Tunneled, Vascath, IJ, PIV Lines – One Call Does it All – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 50

Tunneled, Vascath, IJ, PIV Lines – One Call Does it All describes a case where an Internal Jugular Central Line and shortly thereafter, a Temporary Dialysis Catheter (Vascath) for hemodialysis were ordered for an LTACH patient who also needed a Tunneled Central Line...

Vascath Exchanged to Tunneled Permcath – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 43

Vascath Exchanged to Tunneled Permcath 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; then ten days later, a Tunneled Permcath...

Anxious Patient Needs Hemodialysis – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 42

Anxious Patient Needs Hemodialysis describes how Vascular Wellness helped an anxious patient, who needed extra time and assistance, to become calm enough for the nurse clinician to place a Vascath at the patient’s bedside so she could receive urgently needed...

Numerous IV Medications for Complex Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 41

Numerous IV Medications for Complex Patient describes a case where a facility ordered a vascular access consult for a DIVA patient with End Stage Renal Disease who had several other serious conditions and needed vascular access for administration of numerous IV...

Tunneled Permcath Patient Case

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...