Dialysis Catheter, Mid-Thigh Femoral in Emergency Department describes a patient who came to the Emergency Department from a nursing home with a number of medical issues, including renal failure, and needed vascular access for hemodialysis. Dialysis Catheter,...
Severely Contracted Patient Needs Vascular Access describes a case in an LTACH where a patient needed new vascular access because the arm with an existing Midline was swollen, red, and warm to the touch, and the facility suspected a DVT (deep vein thrombosis). The...
Numerous IV Medications for Complex Patient describes a case where a facility ordered a vascular access consult for a DIVA patient with End Stage Renal Disease who had several other serious conditions and needed vascular access for administration of numerous IV...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice demonstrates how having a vascular access team with a rapid response provides life-saving vascular access. This Wellness Wednesday case is about a teen patient who suffered life-threatening bilateral arm amputation in an accident...
Bilateral Arm Amputation Requires Emergent Vascular Access describes how a teen who suffered a life-threatening accident with a woodchipper, resulting in both arms severed just above the elbow, required emergent and lifesaving vascular access in the Emergency...
Lifesaving access = WIN, Reduced Infection Risk = WIN, Vein Preservation = WIN. This week’s story, a Covid & Kidney Failure Patient Case, demonstrates how having the skills of a Vascular Access Specialist will not only improve patient outcomes, reduce costs,...
Continuing with our Nurse Clinicians in Action stories, this week offers Failed PIV & SVC Syndrome Patient Cases. One story tells how emergency personnel, without the use and accuracy of the US, were continually sticking the patient hoping to find the vein. The...
