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Anxious Patient Needs Hemodialysis – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 42

Anxious Patient Needs Hemodialysis describes how Vascular Wellness helped an anxious patient, who needed extra time and assistance, to become calm enough for the nurse clinician to place a Vascath at the patient’s bedside so she could receive urgently needed...

Numerous IV Medications for Complex Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 41

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...

Hurricane Helene Healthcare Workers

Hurricane Helene Healthcare Workers Vascular Access Nurse Spotlight When natural disasters strike, such as Hurricane Helene, their impact can reach deep and personally affect not just the community, but the healthcare workers who come to their aid. In this case of...

Unnecessary PICC Prescribed – SNF Patient Case

This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Unnecessary PICC Prescribed – SNF Patient Case, highlights a case at a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) where a PICC was ordered to administer two weeks of IV antibiotics, however after reviewing the medical history and visually...

Prescribed PICC Unnecessary at SNF – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 40

Prescribed PICC Unnecessary at SNF involves a case at a SNF (ie, Skilled Nursing Facility) where a PICC was ordered to administer two weeks of IV antibiotics, however after reviewing the medical history and visually assessing the patient, the Vascular Wellness...

Patient Codes – Clinical Case

This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Patient Codes – Clinical Case, demonstrates why having a vascular access partner who is not rushed or incentivized to get to the “next case,” and has deep expertise in difficult IV access, matters. In this Patient Case, a...

Patient Codes Repeatedly, Needs Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 39

Patient Codes Repeatedly, Needs Access describes how a hospital patient who was resuscitated after coding twice was moved to the ICU and needed fluids and vasopressors, but the care team was unable to achieve vascular access. Patient Codes Repeatedly, Needs Access –...

Tunneled Permcath Patient Case

This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Tunneled Permcath Patient Case, highlights how a patient who needed to have an Acute/Temp Vascath replaced with a Tunneled Permcath for hemodialysis was able to have the procedure performed right away, and without ever leaving the bed...

At-Home Vascular Access Patient Case

This month’s Wellness Wednesday, an At-Home Vascular Access Patient Case, highlights the clinical situation of a patient who needed a PICC line for long-term vascular access for IV medication. Vascular Wellness placed the line, but even with detailed written and...