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PICC Downgraded to PIVs after VA-BC Nurse Assessment – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 51

PICC Downgraded to PIVs after VA-BC Nurse Assessment describes a patient in a community hospital who was diagnosed with acute cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder) and required vascular access for two days of antibiotics, as well as a cholecystectomy. The...

Tunneled, Vascath, IJ, PIV Lines – One Call Does it All – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 50

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...

Severely Contracted Patient Needs Vascular Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 47

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...

On-Call Expertise Prevents Unnecessary PICC Removal – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 46

On-Call Expertise Prevents Unnecessary PICC Removal highlights a case where Vascular Wellness properly placed an ECG Tip confirmed PICC that the hospital mistakenly believed needed removal due to an X-ray reading. A Vascular Wellness on-call advanced clinician was...

Vascath and Tunneled Permcath Patient Case

This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Vascath and Tunneled Permcath Patient Case, describes a case where a patient in an LTACH who had suffered many serious injuries in a motor vehicle accident needed emergent dialysis and Vascular Wellness promptly placed a Vascath. Ten...

Anxious Patient Requires Hemodialysis

This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Anxious Patient Requires Hemodialysis, describes a case where an elderly patient who was newly diagnosed with ERSD (end-stage renal disease) was hospitalized and in need of emergent dialysis to address an acute kidney injury...

Previous PIVs Fail Repeatedly – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 44

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...

Vascath Exchanged to Tunneled Permcath – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 43

Vascath Exchanged to Tunneled Permcath describes a case where a patient in an LTACH who had suffered many serious injuries in a motor vehicle accident needed emergent dialysis and Vascular Wellness promptly placed a Vascath; then ten days later, a Tunneled Permcath...

Complex Patient Needs Numerous IV Medications

This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Complex Patient Needs Numerous IV Medications, describes a case where a facility ordered a vascular access consult for Vascular Wellness to determine which central line was best for a DIVA patient with several serious conditions,...