and potential complications must be considered prior to insertion of a PICC. Nurses caring for patients with PICCs must be properly educated in device use, site care, and catheter maintenance ...

Researchers describe how they developed a program for home-based management of indwelling PICC to improve patient self-management.

They use imaging such as ultrasound or CT scans to guide these and other services: Chemotherapy embolization CT-guided biopsy Minimally invasive tumor treatments PICC line, port, and stent placement ...

This patient will require a different type of central catheter. The presence of upper extremity or subclavian thrombosis is another contraindication for bedside PICC insertion, whether or not ...