Continuing with our Nurse Clinicians in Action stories, this week offers Failed PIV & SVC Syndrome Patient Cases. One story tells how emergency personnel, without the use and accuracy of the US, were continually sticking the patient hoping to find the vein. The...
Which types of Central Venous Catheters (CVC) should be used when Peripheral Intravenous (IV) Catheters are not suitable or viable is dependent on various factors. The Central Venous Catheter is just another type of Vascular Access Device (VAD) and fortunately, the...