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...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice is a Wellness Wednesday Nurse Clinicians in Action case story about a PICU Patient needing Emergent Vascular Access. This two-month-old patient was suffering from RSV and pneumonia and needed additional Vascular Access. This case...
PICU Patient Needs Additional Vascular Access describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician, who was called to assist with vascular access and shortly after departure was recalled to the PICU for an emergent situation regarding the same patient whose condition had...
This week we feature 2 more of our Nurse Clinicians in Action stories, Long-Term Antibiotic & Vasopressor Patient Cases. One story tells how our clinician chose the safer Internal Jugular (IJ) line to achieve access instead of the physician’s initially...
Catheter Fracture & Mastectomy Patient Cases demonstrate how Vascular Wellness clinicians’ experience enables us to assess and treat situations properly. In these cases this experience allows us to know when a line is damaged and needs to be removed, or if a...
Pinch-Off Syndrome Patient Case (Pinch-Off Syndrome is the compression and misalignment of a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC), into a “v” position), a clinical vascular access case story about how our Vascular Access clinician diagnosed and...
