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Guarding against infection falls to families as care shifts to home
Read the Original KevinMD.com Article Here. Angela Cooper arrived home from work to discover her daughter’s temperature had spiked to 102 degrees — a sign that the teenager, who has cancer, had a potentially deadly bloodstream infection. As Cooper rushed her daughter...
What Does an Infusion Nurse Do? Interview With an Infusion Therapy Nurse
Read What Does an Infusion Nurse Do? Interview With An Infusion Therapy Nurse on Nurse.org Here. By Lee Nelson The first day Michelle Berreth headed into her surgical unit as a student nurse, she came upon an infusion nurse hanging a patient’s antibiotics next to...
myIV.com Educates Patients on IV Therapy
First website of its kind provides information and tips on 'all things IV, simplified' to inform and empower patients and their family members to be their own healthcare advocates Hampton, VA – January 23, 2018 – Today marks the start of the #myIVawareness campaign...
Learning to be a better patient and preventing IV problems on WTKR’s Coast Live
View the segment on WTKR's Coast Live here. HAMPTON ROADS, Va - As medical errors have been widely reported as a leading (third) cause of death, more patient attention and medical professional transparency needs to be paid to the IV process. A new website, myIV.com,...
The Experience of Patients Living with a Vascular Access Device
Linda Kelly is Clinical Nurse Advisor with Vygon (UK) Ltd. Linda has a long and illustrious career in vascular access as a clinical nurse. In this podcast, Linda gives us a fascinating insight into her PhD study on the experience of patients living with a vascular...
Intravenous Access: Basics and History
Read the Original Article by Lineus Medical Here. Peripheral IVs Peripheral intravenous lines are placed in any of the veins not included in the chest or abdomen and are normally placed in the arms, legs and sometimes the head. The first experiments with peripheral...
It’s Time to Talk About a Dangerous IV Complication: Extravasation
By Ryan MacArthur | Extravasations are a dangerous complication of IV failure that has the potential to cause serious harm to patients. An extravasation is the result of an accidental leaking of a vesicant or chemotherapy drug into the tissue surrounding the IV site....
Vascular Access Teamwork spreads to other pediatric hospitals
Read the Original Press Release from Cincinnati Children's Here. For the last five years, Cincinnati Children’s Vascular Access Team has been working to eliminate preventable harm related to peripheral intravenous infusions (PIV). Now, the team is sharing its...
Air Embolisms and How to Prevent Them
By Heather Michon Quick read: When air accidentally enters veins/arteries, it can create an air embolism. Some are relatively harmless; the risk is when a lot of air enters a vein/artery and travels to the brain, heart or lungs. The lack of blood flow can lead to...
Phlebitis 101
Quick read: Phlebitis usually occurs from trauma to the vein, resulting in inflammation. Over 200,000 U.S. cases are reported each year, making it a common IV complication. There are three main causes: mechanical, chemical and infectious. Common symptoms include...
