First, let me say that I wear two hats. 1) As a PICC team member at a 300 bed hospital and 2) CEO of a PICC placement business. 1. I never place a PICC alone. In the hospital I require a tech, CNA, nurse, or nursing student to be in the room duri...
I think the first question should be is a midline the right catheter for this patient? From the little I have read in your information this patient has infiltrates that prohibit short peripheral placement. If you place a midline in a major vessle a...
It is more difficult to place PICCs in the hospitalized patient because patients are becoming more and more venous depleted. Do you use Ultrasound and Microintroducer technology to assist you in placing these lines? Is your hospital proactive in th...
O.K. this is my second try to post something. I am a better teacher than a computer user. I was told to go to "all nurses" because a name I would recognize was listed there. Let me tell you that I know this person very well. If you would like to ...