permcath Archives

Same Day Tunneled Permcath at the Bedside – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 53

Same Day Tunneled Permcath at the Bedside highlights a case where a patient with several medical conditions had accidentally removed his temporary dialysis catheter and the facility ordered a replacement Permcath, as the patient now needed long-term dialysis. Same Day...

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...

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...

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...

Tunneled Permcath in LTACH Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 38

Tunneled Permcath in LTACH Patient describes how an LTACH patient with chronic kidney disease and respiratory failure, as well as a complex medical history that included lower bilateral DVTs and a pacemaker, needed an Acute/Temp Vascath replaced with a Tunneled...

Building a Dialysis Program

Building a Dialysis Program highlights how Vascular Wellness has helped facilities build dialysis programs and provide vascaths and permcaths to serve their outlying or rural communities, and can quickly build…

Permcath at Patient’s Bedside – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 33

Permcath at Patient’s Bedside describes how a patient in a hospital ICU needed abdominal surgery, but his critical condition resulted in the need for a Permcath so he could be discharged and receive six weeks of hemodialysis, and then return stronger and ready for...