Vendoyne policy question

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What is your unit's policy on Venodyne use for non-stat sections? Do you put them on and have them turned on during the section or do you do it immediately afterwards in recovery?

Does anyone have any references for me?

Altalorraine

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OK, at the risk of appearing really stupid, what is a Vendoyne? Can you tell that that means that we don't have a policy regarding them??

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What is your unit's policy on Venodyne use for non-stat sections? Do you put them on and have them turned on during the section or do you do it immediately afterwards in recovery?

Does anyone have any references for me?

Altalorraine

We put them on pre-op and keep them on throughout surgery, into recovery and until the patient is ambulating.

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Venodynes are those air filled boots that massage the calves to help prevent DVT. Venodyne is the brand name -- you might have a different brand.

OK, at the risk of appearing really stupid, what is a Vendoyne? Can you tell that that means that we don't have a policy regarding them??
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We do not use these on healthy women after csections, as we tend to ambulate them early after surgery.

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HEHE - i was wondering what vendoyne was too. We use what we call SCD's, which sounds like the same thing, plastic boots that inflate and deflate periodically. We put them on prior to going into surgery, they run during surgery and after until mom it up ambulating regularily. Don't think we actually have a policy, we just go by what our docs prefer - and all of them want the SCD's for at least the surgery and immediately post-op. One doc wants them on till the pt is walking out the door - a bit excessive i think.

OBNurseryRN2006

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I don't work in OB but the hospital where I work calls them SCD (sequential compression devices) "skids" too. I was hoping someone would post what they were :)

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We do not use these on healthy women after csections, as we tend to ambulate them early after surgery.

Ditto for the unit I'm going to.

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My unit now puts them everyone prior to the surgery and is supposed to use them until the pt is fully ambulatory. This is a fairly new policy -- the last year or two. Before that, we would only use them after the surgery when the doc ordered them (which they only did occasionally) -- Now, it is on our standing order sheet for c-sections. Of course, in an emergent case, we don't waste our time.

Hope this helps!

P.S. I also have never heard of Venodyne -- we just call them SCD's.

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We don't use those on healthy mothers after delivery. We tend to ambulate early and keep them moving so there really is no need.

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We have one Dr. who orders them, and even now not often because her pt's complain so much about them. We ambulated early in the past, but now that we are using Duramorph in the spinals, our patients are wanting to get up even sooner they feel so good! Only had 1 patient in 5 years with a DVT, and she had it before she came in. We have had a few lady partsl deliveries develop a DVT after D/C from hospital, one died en route to the Dr's office to let them evaluate "this red area on my leg".

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Our standard is to have them on ALL c/s patients before, during, and after until they are able to ambulate well. It wasn't anything we did routinely until a couple of years ago when one of the docs in our largest group went through a lawsuit. Now all the other docs are following suit.

We call ours Kendalls.

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