Building a Dialysis Program
Building a Dialysis Program highlights how Vascular Wellness has helped facilities build dialysis programs and provide vascaths and permcaths to serve their outlying or rural communities, and can quickly build…
Making Dialysis Treatment Accessible
March is National Kidney Month and Vascular Wellness is making dialysis treatment accessible for all. This month, and every month, we focus on enabling better and faster access to treatment options such as Dialysis Catheters for patients with Kidney Disease. Kidney...
Permcath at Patient’s Bedside – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 33
Permcath at Patient’s Bedside describes how a patient in a hospital ICU needed abdominal surgery, but his critical condition resulted in the need for a Permcath so he could be discharged and receive six weeks of hemodialysis, and then return stronger and ready for...
Vascular Access with Bilateral Fistulas – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 27
Vascular Access with Bilateral Fistulas describes how a PICC line for antibiotics was prescribed for a patient, but during the pre-procedure patient assessment, the Vascular Wellness clinician discovered the patient had bilateral fistulas, making access in the upper...
Bilateral Fistulas Patient Case
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Wellness Wednesday case that took place in a Skilled Nursing Facility where the patient needed a vascular access device placed for IV antibiotic therapy. The facility contacted Vascular Wellness to place a PICC line....
Clotted Fistula Requires Urgent Vas-Cath – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 24
Clotted Fistula Requires Urgent Vas-Cath describes how a Vascular Access clinician placed a Vas Cath, or Temporary Dialysis Catheter, at the bedside in a patient whose fistula clotted off in the middle of dialysis and needed emergent Temporary Dialysis access. Clotted...
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....