Undetected DVT Patient Case
This month’s Wellness Wednesday, Undetected DVT Patient Case, highlights the importance of extensive training – particularly understanding contraindications and how to detect potential life-threatening complications – with regard to vascular access. This deep training...
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....
Hospital at Home – Difficult IV Access
Today’s Nurse Clinicians in Action story highlights a Hospital at Home – Difficult IV Access patient who needed vascular access for labs, but their depleted veins resulted in difficult vascular access and nearly a dozen painful and unsuccessful attempts....
Vascular Access for Sepsis Protocol – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 28
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...
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...