SALT LAKE CITY — A North Logan woman is accused of intentionally putting bacteria into her young son's PICC line, causing him to become very ill. Kayla Barlow, 34, was charged Tuesday in 3rd ...

The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has become the first trust in Northern Ireland to offer a nurse-led peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) service across all specialties of care, ...

Hospital-based research nurses provided the assigned, prepackaged PICC to practitioners, who would insert the catheter after randomization. Practitioners inserting the PICCs were provided training ...

PICC lines should be removed quickly when they are no longer needed and should only be used when peripheral heplocks aren’t practical given the clinical scenario.” — Greg Vigna, MD ...

Dr. Vigna criticizes polyurethane PICC lines, promoting hydrophilic-coated lines for reducing infections, thrombosis, and complications such as sepsis PICC lines should be removed quickly when ...

A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC line) is a type of central line. You might have one for chemotherapy and other drugs and fluids. Sometimes you might be able to have blood samples taken ...

Flush it to make sure it doesn’t get clogged. Change the dressing and catheter parts -- you only do this for PICC lines and tunneled CVCs, not for ports. To make care a little easier ...

A CVC helps you avoid those problems. A PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line goes into your arm and runs all the way to a large vein near your heart. The other end may have one or ...

Note to self: PICC line dressing issues, even with a possible infection ... gave me helped me better than anything else (and would explain the spread to other parts of the body). Read more about ...