Empathy and Compassion Beyond the Procedure describes how a patient, who had relied on Vascular Wellness to achieve vascular access numerous times over almost nine years due to her complex medical issues and difficult IV access condition, passed away not alone, but...
Permcath at Patient’s Bedside describes how a patient in a hospital ICU needed abdominal surgery, but his critical condition resulted in the need for a Permcath so he could be discharged and receive six weeks of hemodialysis, and then return stronger and ready for...
Clinician Reduces Skilled Nursing Treatment Cost describes how a patient in a Skilled Nursing Facility needed fluid for dehydration, but her difficult IV access (DIVA) condition resulted in multiple failed attempts at placing a Peripheral IV (PIV) by the local,...
Pediatric Patient with Trisomy 18 describes how a young pediatric patient with Trisomy 18 (a rare genetic disorder) needed vascular access for antibiotics and due to painful, multiple failed attempts, she developed procedure-induced anxiety. Pediatric Patient with...
Vascular Access for Surgical Rehabilitation Patient describes how an expert Vascular Access clinician identified co-morbidities in a clinically complex post-surgical patient and worked with the medical team to obtain safe, appropriate vascular access needed to address...
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...
Implanted Port Obstructs PICC Insertion illustrates how our Vascular Access Specialist determined that her attempted PICC insertion was obstructed by an implanted port, and the clinician was able to create and implement a solution to meet the vascular access needs of...
Vascular Access with Bilateral Fistulas describes how a PICC line for antibiotics was prescribed for a patient, but during the pre-procedure patient assessment, the Vascular Wellness clinician discovered the patient had bilateral fistulas, making access in the upper...
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Wellness Wednesday case that took place in a Skilled Nursing Facility where the patient needed a vascular access device placed for IV antibiotic therapy. The facility contacted Vascular Wellness to place a PICC line....
