Use these tools to improve cannulation:
Cannulation of New Fistula Policy and Procedure
Staff Cannulation Competancy Tool
Vascular Access
Clinical and organizational recommendations based on best practices for increasing AV fistula use and improving hemodialysis patient outcomes.
Renal Network 11
Fistula First Data Collection Tool for Providers
This brochure developed by the Fistula First Breakthrough Initiative (FFBI) helps educate patients about the differences between AVF and AVG.
This algorithm examines managment of a patient with a central venous catheter.
This algorithm helps facilities improve the consistency of AVG assessment and intervention as well as communication efforts with surgeons, nephrologists and interventionalists.
This checklist and poster helps both patient and providers identify signs of an unhealthy AV fistula. These tools encourage a stop, look, and listen approach before initiating dialysis.
This report examines data from patients making choices about their vascular access. The data was collected in 2007.
Patient's share their perspective on choosing the best form of vascular access for them.
This article shows how long term use of sharp needles into buttonhole sites can lead to AVF damage.