Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access

This casebook covers ultrasound guided vascular access with a focus on patient safety. Vascular access is the catalyst between provider and patient. In the past, patients were treated at hospitals for grave illnesses or terrible accidents, but due to significant strides in medicine, the emerging hospitalized patient is one with chronic illness. For these patients, repeated hospital visits slowly deplete their vasculature, creating one of modern medicine's greatest obstacles: vascular access. This book provides safe solutions to bedside vascular access challenges from peripheral to tunneled central lines in the neonatal, pediatric and adult patient populations.Chapters present unique patient cases, incorporating the latest technology and techniques for safely and methodically meeting vascular access challenges. Each chapter begins with a case presentation followed by a detailed discussion on therapeutic interventions and troubleshooting techniques. This book is structured so that each chapter builds on the last, providing peripheral, central and tunneled catheter solutions through a standardized approach. Each chapter additionally ends with key points to summarize what readers have learned to that point. Finally, each part features a COVID-19 case study including vascular access performed in the prone position.This is an ideal guide for trainees, students, clinicians, and healthcare professionals performing ultrasound guided vascular access on their patients.