Summary: A PICC line is a thin tube inserted into a vein in the upper arm and advanced to a large vein near the heart to deliver long-term IV treatments like antibiotics, nutrition, or chemotherapy.

While some practices lower the risk for complications with peripherally inserted central catheters, evidence gaps highlight ...

Please note - this trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available. Doctors often use chemotherapy to treat pancreatic cancer that has spread. One of the drugs ...

As majority of the vascular access devices such as peripherally inserted central venous catheters, tunneled catheter, non-tunneled catheters, peripheral intravenous catheter, midline catheters ...

In this case, the clinician’s misdiagnosis was compounded by a failure to properly communicate follow-up instructions, a failure to take good notes, and an attempt to place the blame on the patient ...

Studies have demonstrated that fibrous sheath formation is nearly ubiquitous among all types of central venous catheter access. Thus, the prevention of catheter-related fibrous sheaths and the ...

Objectives The present study aimed to assess the level of knowledge on peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) maintenance among nurses in China and to analyse the related factors influencing ...

Background: Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) provide enormous benefit to patients. However, recent publications have highlighted relatively high PICC-associated complication rates. We ...

There are around 200 000 nosocomial bloodstream infections yearly in the USA and many are related to the different intravenous catheters used in hospital practice. 16 In a systematic revision, the ...

Of the 34 patients with parenteral nutrition, 21 (60%) arrived with a port and 3 (8.57%) with a central venous catheter at the palliative care ward. Of the 11 (31.34%) patients who received parenteral ...

Washington State University and Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an electrochemical catheter hub that could someday ...