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Meet the newest St. Luke’s doctors now in your community. Trust is the foundation of all relationships. It is earned over time. It is the type of relationship you should have with your doctor. While our physicians have different specialties and practice in different locations, they are focused on building a lasting relationship with you, earning your trust and putting your health and wellbeing first, above all other considerations. When it comes to providing great health care, trust is essential.
Amulia Chari, DO Primary Care
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Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute Utilizes Point-of-Care Ultrasound With Support From Emergency Medicine Colleagues LVHN emergency medicine and oncology clinicians have teamed up to make intravenous line insertions easier for cancer patients
When Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute was gifted a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) as part of a generous donation from Tom and Karin Hall, there was a lot of excitement. POCUS helps clinicians find veins more easily when putting in intravenous (IV) lines, which reduces insertion attempts. This ultimately leads to higher patient satisfaction and less complications (like infections and blood clots). However, there was one problem: none of the Cancer Institute nurses were trained to use it.
Teaming up Jill Korn, RN, Director of Clinical Services for the Tom and Karin Hall Center for Infusion and Cellular Therapies at Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute at Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Cedar Crest, knew she had to address this problem. She was aware that POCUS has been used in Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) emergency rooms for a long time, and decided to contact emergency medicine physician Kevin Roth, DO, with the Emergency Room at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg and the Emergency Room at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. “We have been performing POCUS and training our emergency medicine physicians and nurses on it for almost two decades,” Roth says. “We know how beneficial the technology is for patients, and we wanted to support our oncology colleagues in using it.” Roth quickly set up a lecture and hands-on tutorial for interested oncology nurses. Afterward, the nurses began proctored patient training to become even more skilled with the technology. Connie Simpson, RN, an emergency medicine nurse preceptor, is leading the proctored training efforts. Simpson learned how to use POCUS when it was first offered at LVHN, and she is happy to pass on her knowledge.
A lasting impact More oncology nurses are expected to train on POCUS with the support of experienced emergency medicine nurses, and as members of the first cohort complete their proctored patient training (by performing 25 successful IV line placements), they will begin to utilize the technology independently in the Cancer Institute’s treatment areas. “It has been great watching the teamwork unfold between two talented groups of clinicians,” Roth says. “We look forward to educating more oncology nurses on this important technology and making it available for cancer patients on a regular basis.”
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