Responsive and Adaptable Hospital Support describes how Vascular Wellness provides flexible and agile support for hospitals to handle virtually all clinical events, through exceptional scope and scale of vascular access expertise and interdepartmental collaboration...
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,...
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...
Newborn Urgently Needs IV Access describes how a newborn who was just hours old was having difficulty breathing and needed IV access for fluids. Newborn Urgently Needs IV Access – Clinical Case This case took place in a hospital where a baby was just born a few hours...
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Vascath and Tunneled Permcath Patient Case, 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. Ten...
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Anxious Patient Requires Hemodialysis, describes a case where an elderly patient who was newly diagnosed with ERSD (end-stage renal disease) was hospitalized and in need of emergent dialysis to address an acute kidney injury...
Ultrasound Guidance Insufficient for DIVA Patient describes a case where Emergency Department nurses and physicians tried multiple times using ultrasound guidance to achieve vascular access in a sick patient but were unsuccessful primarily due to the patient’s...
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...
Hurricane Helene Healthcare Workers Vascular Access Nurse Spotlight When natural disasters strike, such as Hurricane Helene, their impact can reach deep and personally affect not just the community, but the healthcare workers who come to their aid. In this case of...
