- About
Every day preventable accidents and injuries occur to patients involving the safe and individual patient appropriate use of intravenous access, injections and use of occlusive devices. These injuries are often tragic, have longlasting implications for patients and medical staff and in almost all instances, are all completely proeventable. Save The Arm is a site dedicated to the education and proliferation of knowledge related to medical conditions which require persons to avoid needle sticks, intravenous line access placement PICC line placement and/or placement of blood pressure cuffs or occlusive devices in an arm to reduce the chance of injury or to prevent damage to a limb that might be used at some future point for percutaneous dialysis access. Save The Arm also proposes to better educate patients and medical staff about patients which might need to avoid needle sticks, IV access, PICC line access and/or trauma/pressure to an arm. Such conditions include but are not exclusively limited to: Patients likely requiring the need for future arterio-venous (AV) fistula or graft access in a forearm for hemodialysis access. Patients with existing AV fistula or graft access who should not receive sticks, IV access or PICC line access in the affected arm. Patients with acquired lymphedema conditions secondary to things… - Your Story
We’d be honored if you’ll share your story about Lymphedema. Your name will be published, so please only fill out your first name, or choose a username instead of your real name. Your email address will NOT be published. Questions to consider answering in sharing your story are: What are you currently doing to protect your arm? Do you discuss your condition with your healthcare providers? Are you concerned that you may be in an emergency situation where you can not speak, and someone draws blood from that arm? What are you doing to prepare for that? [si-contact-form form='1'] - Contact Us
Address: 3401 Heritage Hills Parkway Claremore, OK 74019 USA Telephone: 918. 923.6216 Fax: 918. 923.6216 Email: administrator@savethearm.com
