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Sign the petition to help reduce patient-related [radiopharmaceutical] extravasation injuries.

Patients for Safer Nuclear Medicine is a coalition of patient advocacy groups and corporate partners demanding that patients get the information they need so their diseases are accurately diagnosed and treated.

Extravasations are injections of radioactive drugs into patient tissue instead of the vein. Significant extravasations can result in inaccurate nuclear medicine scans (i.e. PET/CT scans) and can harm patients but are not required to be reported as a medical event. 

Join 31 member organizations in urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to correct wrong information and consider significant extravasations as medical events.

Global Vascular Access, LLC is a proud corporate partner of this clinically-related problem and is sharing this information on behalf of Patients for Safer Nuclear Medicine.

– SUPPORT PATIENT SAFETY.
– SUPPORT HEALTH CARE ACCOUNTABILITY.
– SIGN THE PETITION HERE
– SHARE THE PETITION ON TWITTER USING HASHTAG #ACTNOWNRC.

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Welcome

Firstly, I’d like to say welcome. My aim is to deliver some thought-focussed and robust evidence and information for clinicians working in the world of vascular access and infection prevention. This blog is for helping everyday clinicians in accessing current information to improve care to the patient that is evidence-based, but also incorporating through discussion, the knowledge and expertise from like-minded clinicians at improving and advancing the practices of vascular access… while maintaining the patient as the primary focus of our care.

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Evaluating Nursing Students’ Venipuncture and Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation Knowledge, Attitude, and Performance – A Two-Phase Evaluation Study

New Open Access publication on Evaluating Nursing Students’ Venipuncture and Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation Knowledge, Attitude, and Performance – A Two-Phase Evaluation Study form the Journal of Infusion Nursing

Evaluating Nursing Students’ Venipuncture and Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation Knowledge, Attitude, and Performance – A Two-Phase Evaluation Study

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Bacterial isolates from positive paired venous catheter and peripheral blood cultures taken during parenteral nutrition were the same species but different strains: A case report

New Open Access publication on Bacterial isolates from positive paired venous catheter and peripheral blood cultures taken during parenteral nutrition were the same species but different strains: A case report from Nutrition

Bacterial isolates from positive paired venous catheter and peripheral blood cultures taken during parenteral nutrition were the same species but different strains: A case report

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Is central line type an independent risk factor of central line-associated bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit population? Experiences at a pediatric hospital in South Texas

New Open Access publication on Is central line type an independent risk factor of central line-associated bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit population? Experiences at a pediatric hospital in South Texas from Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology

Is central line type an independent risk factor of central line-associated bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit population? Experiences at a pediatric hospital in South Texas

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Complications associated to midline- and long peripheral catheters in adults. Systematic review of literature and proposal for a standardized model for data collection

A new Open Access publication on Complications associated to midline- and long peripheral catheters in adults. Systematic review of literature and proposal for a standardized model for data collection from Thrombosis Research

Complications associated to midline- and long peripheral catheters in adults. Systematic review of literature and proposal for a standardized model for data collection