jessie6167

Thanks for your reply. We are from the pediatric world so this practice of measuring has caused a lot of tension with the physicians and our team since we are telling them that we are unable to place a picc line due to the patient not having a vessel large enough. Before we started measuring we would simply eyeball it and figure it would fit.

Hello, Our VAT measures vein diameter for PICC placement and we have been doing so for some time. However, we have never been formally taught how to do it. So my question is how does everyone else measure? Do you measure side to side vs up and down vs diagonally? Thanks so much! I’ve looked everywhere for formal literature on how to measure and can’t find it anywhere.