Urgent Vascath and Axillary Line describes a critically ill ICU patient in a Trauma Hospital who urgently needed a temporary dialysis catheter for hemodialysis treatment, as she was diagnosed with Diabetic Ketoacidosis (a severe, life-threatening complication with...
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...
In the Room Where it Happened: Whitney Page and Nurse-Placed Central Lines in South Carolina Nurse-Placed Central Lines in South Carolina highlights the South Carolina Board of Nursing’s advisory opinion that adds central line placement by registered nurses...
First South Carolina Nurse-Placed Internal Jugular CVC highlights a case in a Rehabilitation Hospital where a patient needed IV access for the administration of antibiotics, blood products, and blood draws. A Midline was ordered, but because of her extensive...
Tunneled, Vascath, IJ, PIV Lines – One Call Does it All describes a case where an Internal Jugular Central Line and shortly thereafter, a Temporary Dialysis Catheter (Vascath) for hemodialysis were ordered for an LTACH patient who also needed a Tunneled Central Line...
Possible DVT Leads to Downgraded IJ describes a case where a hospital patient with difficult IV access and a medical history of renal failure requiring hemodialysis, was experiencing a gastrointestinal bleed and needed multiple blood transfusions. The patient’s...
Vascular Access for Surgical Rehabilitation Patient describes how an expert Vascular Access clinician identified co-morbidities in a clinically complex post-surgical patient and worked with the medical team to obtain safe, appropriate vascular access needed to address...
Implanted Port Obstructs PICC Insertion illustrates how our Vascular Access Specialist determined that her attempted PICC insertion was obstructed by an implanted port, and the clinician was able to create and implement a solution to meet the vascular access needs of...
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...
