Previous PIVs Fail Repeatedly highlights a patient case involving an elderly man in a Skilled Nursing Home who needed long-term IV antibiotics to treat pneumonia. The facility ordered a peripheral IV (PIV), however, each new PIV failed within a day, delaying therapy...
Vascular Access for Quadriplegic Patient describes how a Vascular Access clinician was able to rely on his knowledge, training, and experience to expertly assess a quadriplegic patient in a skilled nursing facility to recommend and gain physician approval for a safer...
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...
