This week we offer you a Nurse Clinicians in Action story that involves the ongoing battle healthcare providers face against Covid. This Complex Covid-19 Patient Case describes how our Vascular Access clinician evaluated a Covid patient and advocated a creative and...
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...
Complex COVID patient needs more access describes how the Vascular Access clinician evaluated a COVID patient, advocated a creative and clinically appropriate solution for multiple points of access, and created such access achieving the best outcome feasible, and is...
Internal Jugular Line and Vasopressors describes how the Vascular Access clinician was able to use his advanced skill set to timely place an Internal Jugular (IJ) line in a critical patient on vasopressors and is the focus of this Nurse Clinicians in Action. Internal...
Internal Jugular Line When Upper Arm Infection describes how the Vascular Access clinician was able to use his advanced skill set to assess the patient’s clinical history and choose the safer and more clinically appropriate Internal Jugular (IJ) line to achieve access...
Mastectomy and PICC Line can be Unsafe Combination describes how the Vascular Access clinician consulted with the patient’s physician to revise the physician’s order from a PICC Line to the more clinically appropriate Internal Jugular (IJ) Line and is the focus of...
