Av Fistula Cannulation Training: Fun And Easy!

[@trevormwatkin]

Thank you, I've been dialysing for 5 years and this is the best piece of training I've ever seen. I 'm going to ask my consultant to make these videos available to all new dialysis nurses and maybe new patents. On a more personal note I need to have a 'proximal revision in the mid forearm above the arterial needling site' can you give me a layman's definition?

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank u Trevor! Does ur fistula have a large buldge near where they put one of the needles?

[@phylliciamarie200]

I’m not a nurse but starting off as a pct. Thank you for your video and explanation. All the pieces are starting to piece together.

[@cristielyd.2761]

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your channel !!! I just got my first RN job at a dialysis clinic, and finding your channel was such a blessing

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Oh good! And welcome to dialysis nursing 🤗 I was a nurse 8 years before I found dialysis and I still had no idea what dialysis all entailed. It is a niche! And new grads make great dialysis nurses, u are coachable; excited, love learning, and catch on fast 💨 👏🏻

[@cristielyd.2761]

@@dialysisnurselindsey wow that's amazing!! Thank you for your encouragement and kind words.

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

@@cristielyd.2761 ❤️🤩💪🥰

[@lancee64]

thank you sooo much for this video i am not a nurse but i do at home dialysis for my mother.. if im being being honest i just go where i see the old scars .. im looking forward to this video! sometimes we have high arterial pressure

[@wouldntyouliketoknow873]

I’d like to see you do a video on cannulating fistulas with aneurysm. I have trouble doing those.

[@jungheecho2420]

Hi Lindsey. I am going to attend a training as a new dialysis RN in 3 weeks. It is whole new world for me and I have been so nervous.but the more I can watch your videos, the more confident I am. Now I can’t wait to join the team. Thank you and Happy new year!

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Wonderful! Best of luck. thank you!

[@johnpauloacosta9659]

Your videos are so underrated. Your topics are essential for those in the HD unit and for those aspiring to be one. On point explanation. So much information but not overwhelming. Kudos! ❤️from an HD RN from the Philippines

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank you so much, this warms my heart and keeps me motivated to make more videos ❤️ please share this video with your HD RNs in the Philippines. 😃

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

I think this is so cool that these videos are reaching dialysis nurses in other countries. Thanks again 🥰

[@johnpauloacosta9659]

@@dialysisnurselindsey for sure I will. I learned so much from your videos and I always look forward for new uploads. Been a subscriber for months now. You’re doing wonderful and Im positive that very soon, your views will be way mooooore! ❤️

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

I appreciate you and your love for dialysis and your positivity! 🙏🎈🥰

[@johnpauloacosta9659]

@@dialysisnurselindsey the pleasure is mine. :) you’re helping a lot of nurses and technicians understand HD concepts in an informative and fun way so please make more videos! ❤️

[@vlogskashif]

Extraordinary, amazing Am a Head Nurse in Dialysis center ,

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank u!! 😃

[@fashionnursekesha]

I love cannulating fistulas. Always get it right. Did a year long course and just give it up and back to my emergency nursing. About to study it for 2 years from Sept and become a renal nurse specialist Love your vids

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Ohh good!! Congrats!!! Let me know how the test goes :)

[@saveamerica2896]

Love this video. You made it more simple.to comprehend

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank u!!! 🥰

[@redcrewmate1813]

Oh yeah i totally know what that means

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thanks!

[@ThaoPham-wu1gc]

Hello hello! Thank-you for making great videos. Your love for dialysis started me interested in dialysis! My first nursing job ever is a HD nurse. I started this past week :)

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

U are welcome and welcome to the club!! We need u 🙏❤️

[@twinklekeller608]

Bravo! Bravo! You're the best!

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank u!! 🥰

[@alecyates]

This was so creative! And informative!!new PCT here :) thank you!!

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank you 😊. And Welcome to dialysis 👏🏻

[@idobuba]

Great job Lindsey!!! I love being a dialysis nurse

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank you for ur support! I love it too 🥳🥰. R u a member of my Facebook group? We’d love to have u!

[@idobuba]

@@dialysisnurselindsey no I’m not . What is it called??

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

@@idobuba Dialysis Nurses Supporting Nurses. this link should work too :) facebook.com/groups/215559410197295

[@sugarsipe7771]

Hello Lindsey! I wanted to express my gratitude for the amazing videos you've created. As a newly minted nurse entering the field of dialysis, I found your tutorials to be incredibly helpful. Without your videos, I would have been completely lost. I was wondering if you could possibly provide a cheat sheet that I, as a student or new nurse, could refer to regularly? Thank you again.

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank You Sugar! This messages helps me a lot…and omg a cheat sheet! I love love love this idea…let’s ger brainstorming. Areas….fistulas, catheters, general machines, water room, assessments…labs…what else?! 🤗

[@sugarsipe7771]

@@dialysisnurselindsey Yey! Thank you.

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Ur welcome! And thank u for becoming a member 🙌📺

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

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[@lauralasko1705]

OMG ! I am so glad you talked about aneurysms and what could happen. How do I detect them under the skin? Does it look visibly larger underneath the skin ?

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

have you seen any real life aneurysms?

[@misshoosier7803]

Thank you for a great video, I am about to start working in centee dialysis as a newbie rn :)

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Awesome! Welcome to the niche!! Thank u for watching 😃

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Please join my Facebook Group! We are so much fun facebook.com/groups/215559410197295

[@cmerriweather72]

This was a great video. Very informative 👍🏾❤️

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank u so so so much!!!!!!!

[@evalaurent5276]

Thank you! Very informative! 👍🏾👍🏾

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

You are welcome ❤️

[@donjonathantorres6484]

Hi, my name is Don, from the Philippines, i am a new dialysis patient, i have a newly fistula in my right arm, last five days, my question is ifthey put anesthesia to my arm before they insert the needle? Thanks and God bless. And how to proper care of my new fistula? Love from the Philippines....

[@jonathandiaz5434]

Yes yes yes! Very informative and now learned something new :)

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

👏🏻 thanks Jonathan!

[@katiagabay]

Lindsey thank you so much for the videos! So informative. I just started as an acute dialysis nurse after 12 years in Hospice and Home Health, my 4th week on the floor and i feel totally overwhelmed, i really appreciate your humor and love for dialysis nursing! :)

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank you! 🙏 🤗

[@MrAphilip]

Nice info good job

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank you Alex!!!

[@ЖанатКулканбаева]

Hello, I'm from Kazakhstan. Please add subtitles in Russian. Thank you very much for your information about fistula.

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Wow, that's awesome, thank you

[@zuberpathan688]

Good work 👍

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank u!! 💕

[@zuberpathan688]

You have watthup number so send me I'm also dailysis technican

[@drEgyZizo]

Thanks for your channel, i am a new dialysis patient (role of 6 perfectly applies), made about 12 dialysis sessions till no, and unfortunately each time they insert the needles, one of them (usually proximal one) cases trauma and partial thrombosis to the vein. this happened in 11 out of the 12 sessions. Can i use the usual IV plastic cannula so it may be nice to the vein than the iron needle?

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

I'm so sorry this is happening to you, but unfortunately this is common with new fistulas. The best thing we can do when we cannot get the needle in successfully is to rest the fistula (might need a catheter--up to you and the provider), ice the fistula (to decrease swelling). And sometimes the new fistula needs to see the vascular surgeon or interventional radiology to see why the needles aren't going in well. Sometimes the new fistula needs some tweaking before it starts working well.

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

omg and how could I forget, fistula exercises! usually squeezing a stress ball for 5 minutes per day to increase the blood flow to your fistula so the fistula gets nice and fat for the needles :)

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

some dialysis units do use plastic cannula's. My clinic does not, so I do not have much experience with them

[@alimadd3543]

How we come do sodium profiling in gombor

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

I’m sorry! I’m not familiar with this machine

[@alimadd3543]

Sodium profiling in feresnous machines..and gambro machine...

[@thewarriorsquestshow]

Good info! 😊

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank you Jared!! 😺

[@thewarriorsquestshow]

@@dialysisnurselindsey You're welcome. I'm a kidney disease patient advocate and I am very pleased with the work you're doing.

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Diddo! I’m excited to watch ur videos 👏🏻 🤗

[@Luke747gal]

Excellent demonstration! Loved it.

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

Thank you!!! 🙏 🥰

[@Munthebun]

Making me real nervous with how you're holding that needle. Please be safe, you don't want a needle stick injury

[@geonerd]

No, sticking a fistula is not 'fun,' particularly the first dozen times you do it. While you do present some good information, the Prozac Overdose delivery gets kind of old.

[@rake1861]

Unbelievable I might be a patient. Unbelievable. I don’t think I could do it. That looks so horrible.

[@dialysisnurselindsey]

My thoughts are almost always worse than what really happens. Hang in there!