We remind readers that PICCs are a medical device inserted into the arm to enable medications and other treatments to be administered or to draw blood through multiple access ports. PICCs are contradictions: they rest inside and outside the body; enable powerful antibiotics to be administered but...
Heparin may be used to flush the line to prevent blood clots. Medicine will be placed at the insertion site (the place where it goes into your skin). The medicine helps prevent an infection at the site. The catheter will be secured to your skin with a dressing. The dressing holds it ...
The use of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) has increased in cancer patients. This study aimed to compare the incidence of PICC-related bloodstream infections (PICCR-BSIs) in cancer patients treated with chemotherapy and in noncancer patie