Our hospital is purchasing I/O devices and placing them in ED and code responders posession. Is anyone using them in rapid responses or are we all following the standard and placing them only in life-threatening situations. Our "team" is pushing to use them in rapid responses. I think this is too much.
Jennifer
If you wouldn't mind, I would also like to know which teams are doing intraosseous and jugular placements (straight stick / tunnelled?; internal or external jugular), who trained and precepted them?
I understand that, like the triple lumen PICCs we place, only about one percent of the patients are eligible for placement of these advanced accesses (from a risk / benefit point of view). However as our population becomes increasingly elderly and sick, there are more occasions when it would not only be handy but life-saving to have these skills in your bag of tricks.
Who better to utilize these accesses than a highly educated, skilled vascular access consultant (when the situation warrants)!?!
Dianne Sim RN
CEO & President,
IV Assist, Inc
Dianne Sim RN, VA-BC, CEO; IV Assist, Inc.