Responsive and Adaptable Hospital Support describes how Vascular Wellness provides flexible and agile support for hospitals to handle virtually all clinical events, through exceptional scope and scale of vascular access expertise and interdepartmental collaboration...
24-Hour Vascular Access Consult and Coordination describes a patient who came to an Emergency Department on a weekend with a suspected infection in her PICC line, which she had in place for long-term outpatient antibiotic therapy, and the ED wasn’t sure of the best...
PICC Downgraded to PIVs after VA-BC Nurse Assessment describes a patient in a community hospital who was diagnosed with acute cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder) and required vascular access for two days of antibiotics, as well as a cholecystectomy. The...
Occluded PICC Removed with Client Shadowing describes how a patient in a Hospice center had a PICC line that was being used for pain management, but it was no longer working, so the facility ordered a Midline to provide vascular access for the needed therapies. The...
On-Call Expertise Prevents Unnecessary PICC Removal highlights a case where Vascular Wellness properly placed an ECG Tip confirmed PICC that the hospital mistakenly believed needed removal due to an X-ray reading. A Vascular Wellness on-call advanced clinician was...
Use of Infrared and Ultrasound in Vein Visualization Infrared and Ultrasound in Vein Visualization refers to the use of the two most popular aides to help clinicians locate veins when placing intravenous (IV) lines or performing blood draws. Infrared devices provide...
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 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...
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...
