This week we feature 2 more of our Nurse Clinicians in Action stories, Long-Term Antibiotic & Vasopressor Patient Cases. One story tells how our clinician chose the safer Internal Jugular (IJ) line to achieve access instead of the physician’s initially...
Reasons for long hospital stays include continued medical care such as therapy, surgical interventions, and chemotherapy or radiotherapy and also non-medical reasons such as staff inefficiency and miscommunication, equipment mismanagement, waiting for a community...
Central Venous Catheter is a catheter that ends in a large vein, either the Superior Vena Cava (SVC), which is just above the heart or the Inferior Vena Cava (IVC), which is just below the heart. Central Venous Catheters are also called Central Lines and Central...
Pinch-Off Syndrome Patient Case (Pinch-Off Syndrome is the compression and misalignment of a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC), into a “v” position), a clinical vascular access case story about how our Vascular Access clinician diagnosed and...
