Bilateral Arm Amputation Requires Emergent Vascular Access – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 26
Bilateral Arm Amputation Requires Emergent Vascular Access describes how a teen who suffered a life-threatening accident with a woodchipper, resulting in both arms severed just above the elbow, required emergent and lifesaving vascular access in the Emergency...
Clotted Fistula Requires Urgent Vas-Cath – Nurse Clinicians in Action – 24
Clotted Fistula Requires Urgent Vas-Cath describes how a Vascular Access clinician placed a Vas Cath, or Temporary Dialysis Catheter, at the bedside in a patient whose fistula clotted off in the middle of dialysis and needed emergent Temporary Dialysis access. Clotted...
Clotted Fistula Patient Case
Today’s Vascular Wellness Voice features a Nurse Clinicians in Action Clotted Fistula Patient Case. In this clinical case, a patient’s fistula clotted in the middle of dialysis and required emergent temporary dialysis access. The patient was recovering...
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.
Faster Access to Dialysis
Tunneled central catheters, also known as Perm caths, can be small bore or large bore lines, and are used when vascular access is needed over a long period of time (anywhere from two weeks to several months). This makes them a good solution when clinically indicated for hemodialysis during renal (kidney) failure, as well as chemotherapy, antibiotics, parenteral nutrition and more.
Nurse-placed Dialysis Catheters at the Bedside
Patients with acute or chronic kidney disease can need different types of Dialysis Catheters – Acute/Temp Vascaths and Tunneled Permcaths. Having a skilled partner who can perform these procedures as soon as they are clinically indicated, without delay – and at the patient’s bedside – can improve patient outcomes and decrease hospital and patient costs significantly.
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...