IV Infiltration and Extravasation Causes and Prevention
IV Infiltration Prevention and Management describes infiltrations and extravasations, common causes, and best practices to prevent and mitigate the risk of these complications from occurring…
Undetected DVT in Skilled Nursing Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 37
Undetected DVT in Skilled Nursing Patient describes how an elderly patient in a Skilled Nursing Facility needed a replacement PICC line so he could complete his course of antibiotics and hydration, but the arm where the previous PICC was placed was swollen and red....
Customized At-Home Vascular Access Solution – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 36
Customized At-Home Vascular Access Solution highlights the clinical case of a patient who needed reliable, long-term vascular access for IV medication and how Vascular Wellness improves patient care with customized solutions regardless of the setting. Customized...
Empathy and Compassion Patient Story
Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story is a little different, it’s an Empathy and Compassion Patient Story. We typically feature clinical cases and treatment, but today we want to focus on our holistic patient and family care approach, and how this sets us...
Bilateral Fistulas Patient Case
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....
Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient Case
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice is a Wellness Wednesday Nurse Clinicians in Action Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient Case that describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician notices an atrial fibrillation episode while placing a PICC line in an anxious quadruple...
Critical Vascular Access for Patient Transport
Today’s Critical Vascular Access for Patient Transport case story describes how a Vascular Access clinician utilizes her advanced knowledge and skills and remains calm and collected in a stressful situation, to place a PICC line prior to transport, in a...