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1. knowing how to maintain a PICC line

   hkirk1466 replied to afteralltheseyears's topic in Infusion

   The home health nurse is doing the dressing changes but they give us a hard time when we ask for more than one at a week. The paper the hospital gave us says twice a week. They wont let me, because I "wont use sterile procedures" But the home health ...

2. knowing how to maintain a PICC line

   hkirk1466 replied to afteralltheseyears's topic in Infusion

   I am very interested in picc lines. Someone I know has one and it always has blood around the insertion point, it looks like a lot of blood under the tegaderm, but it is really a small amount. We were wondering is that normal? There is no pain or hea...