Vascular Access for Surgical Rehabilitation Patient describes how an expert Vascular Access clinician identified co-morbidities in a clinically complex post-surgical patient and worked with the medical team to obtain safe, appropriate vascular access needed to address...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Wellness Wednesday case that took place in a Hospital Emergency Department where the patient needed vascular access to commence the sepsis protocol of treatment. Unfortunately, the patient was not only dehydrated but...
Vascular Access for Sepsis Protocol describes how a Skilled Nursing Facility resident with a fever of unknown origin was transported to the Emergency Department where she was put on the sepsis protocol for early diagnosis and treatment, and needed difficult-to-obtain...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Wellness Wednesday case that took place in a Skilled Nursing Facility where the patient needed a vascular access device placed for IV antibiotic therapy. The facility contacted Vascular Wellness to place a PICC line....
Fracture and Extravasation Complicates Vascular Access involves a case where a patient’s need for vascular access for a blood transfusion was complicated by a fracture and a Vancomycin extravasation, which the facility thought was a tape allergy, and multiple failed...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Nurse Clinicians in Action Clotted Fistula Patient Case. In this clinical case, a patient’s fistula clotted in the middle of dialysis and required emergent temporary dialysis access. The patient was recovering...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice is a Wellness Wednesday Nurse Clinicians in Action case story about a PICU Patient needing Emergent Vascular Access. This two-month-old patient was suffering from RSV and pneumonia and needed additional Vascular Access. This case...
PICU Patient Needs Additional Vascular Access describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician, who was called to assist with vascular access and shortly after departure was recalled to the PICU for an emergent situation regarding the same patient whose condition had...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice offers a moving Nurse Clinicians in Action Story. This Vascular Access for End of Life Care patient case occurred in a long-term care facility (LTC) with a critically ill patient whose family was faced with making decisions on the...
