vascular access expert Archives

Vein Preservation in Patients with Kidney Disease

Patients with kidney disease and renal failure have limited vascular access routes, making vein preservation critically important. Gaining vascular access in these patients can be challenging due to stenosis – thickening, hardening, stiffening, and narrowing – of the veins.

Emergent Temporary Dialysis Catheter – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 23

Emergent Temporary Dialysis Catheter at the Bedside describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician placed a Vas-Cath at the Bedside in a critically ill patient in need of emergent dialysis when no transportation options were available, enabling prompt hemodialysis....

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...

PICU Patient & Emergent Vascular Access

Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice is a Wellness Wednesday Nurse Clinicians in Action case story about a PICU Patient needing Emergent Vascular Access. This two-month-old patient was suffering from RSV and pneumonia and needed additional Vascular Access. This case...

PICU Patient Needs Additional Vascular Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 21

PICU Patient Needs Additional Vascular Access describes how a Vascular Wellness clinician, who was called to assist with vascular access and shortly after departure was recalled to the PICU for an emergent situation regarding the same patient whose condition had...

Vascular Access for Quadriplegic Patient – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 20

Vascular Access for Quadriplegic Patient describes how a Vascular Access clinician was able to rely on his knowledge, training, and experience to expertly assess a quadriplegic patient in a skilled nursing facility to recommend and gain physician approval for a safer...

IV Insertion Courses

Today’s Wellness Wednesday newsletter highlights our Basic and Advanced IV Insertion Courses. Participants are trained how to properly and confidently complete a successful intravenous catheter insertion or, as in the Advanced course, how to refine intravenous...

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...

Emergent Vascular Access for Patient Transport – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 19

Emergent Vascular Access for Patient Transport 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 declining patient with poor...