Nervous_nurse

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1. Bloody hell!: venous sheath hemorrhage

   Nervous_nurse replied to Nervous_nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Well, after this happened I'm thinking we should make it a protocol too!

2. Bloody hell!: venous sheath hemorrhage

   Nervous_nurse replied to Nervous_nurse's topic in General Nursing

   It had been several hours, but as I said, I never accessed the line and the patient was sedated and not moving.

3. Bloody hell!: venous sheath hemorrhage

   Nervous_nurse replied to Nervous_nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for your response. Fem sheath was never capped because patient had come up from OR unstable- emergent lvad - and anesthesia leaves them uncapped downstairs. The venous sheath wasn't transduced but the art line In the same fem was. I assessed t...

4. Bloody hell!: venous sheath hemorrhage

   Nervous_nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   So, I basically need help figuring out how the heck my patient got into this situation in the first place. Had a fem art line next to a venous sheath. Stopcocks were off to the patient preventing bleeding and I never touched the art line or sheath th...