Patient Codes Repeatedly, Needs Access describes how a hospital patient who was resuscitated after coding twice was moved to the ICU and needed fluids and vasopressors, but the care team was unable to achieve vascular access. Patient Codes Repeatedly, Needs Access –...
Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story highlights a Hospital at Home – Difficult IV Access patient who needed vascular access for labs, but their depleted veins resulted in difficult vascular access and nearly a dozen painful and unsuccessful attempts....
Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story is a little different, it’s an Empathy and Compassion Patient Story. We typically feature clinical cases and treatment, but today we want to focus on our holistic patient and family care approach, and how this sets us...
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...
Empathy and Compassion Beyond the Procedure describes how a patient, who had relied on Vascular Wellness to achieve vascular access numerous times over almost nine years due to her complex medical issues and difficult IV access condition, passed away not alone, but...
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,...
Pediatric Patient with Trisomy 18 describes how a young pediatric patient with Trisomy 18 (a rare genetic disorder) needed vascular access for antibiotics and due to painful, multiple failed attempts, she developed procedure-induced anxiety. Pediatric Patient with...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice offers a moving Nurse Clinicians in Action Story. This Vascular Access for End of Life Care patient case occurred in a long-term care facility (LTC) with a critically ill patient whose family was faced with making decisions on the...
Today’s Wellness Wednesday | Vascular Wellness Voice is a Crouzon Syndrome Pediatric Patient Case about a six-year-old DIVA patient with Crouzon syndrome who was facing another round of surgeries in this Vascular Wellness clinical case story. Due to her previous...
