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...
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...
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....
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...
