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.

Only clinicians who have been trained to manage potential complications should remove a PICC. One potential complication, often referred to as a "stuck PICC," occurs when the catheter fails to ...