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...
Fracture and Extravasation Complicates Vascular Access involves a case where a patient’s need for vascular access for a blood transfusion was complicated by a fracture and a Vancomycin extravasation, which the facility thought was a tape allergy, and multiple failed...
