Urgent Vascath and Axillary Line describes a critically ill ICU patient in a Trauma Hospital who urgently needed a temporary dialysis catheter for hemodialysis treatment, as she was diagnosed with Diabetic Ketoacidosis (a severe, life-threatening complication with...
Ultrasound Guidance Insufficient for DIVA Patient describes a case where Emergency Department nurses and physicians tried multiple times using ultrasound guidance to achieve vascular access in a sick patient but were unsuccessful primarily due to the patient’s...
Hospital at Home Difficult Sticks highlights a Hospital at Home patient who needed vascular access for labs, but their depleted veins made obtaining vascular access difficult, and resulted in repeated and painful attempts that were unfortunately unsuccessful. The...
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...
