Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Jared Tucker

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• Research Article
  Patient Satisfaction with Nurse Placed Ultrasound Guided Peripheral IV
  Author(s): Ananda Vishnu Pandurangadu, Jared Tucker, Michael Bagan and Amit Bahl Ananda Vishnu Pandurangadu, Jared Tucker, Michael Bagan and Amit Bahl
  
  Objective: Ultrasound (US) guidance for procedures is a well-established adjunct that improves the quality of patient care. Specifically, we assess the impact of nurse performed ultrasound-guided peripheral IV (USGPIV) placement on patient satisfaction with the procedure. Methods: We performed a randomized, prospective controlled study. 10 emergency department (ED) nurses were trained on USGPIVs which included a didactic and supervised placement of 10 US-guided IVs on live subjects. Another cohort of 10 ED nurses received a didactic on using traditional techniques to obtain IVs on difficult vascular access patients. Adult patients were enrolled based on strict inclusion criteria which identified them as having difficult vascular access. Once enrolled, the subjects were randomized into either the US-guided arm or the standard of care (SOC) arm, .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000325

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