The origination of the central venous catheter technique is attributed to Werner Forrsmann in 1929, who won a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1956 for his idea of delivering a drug directly into the heart ...

Baby GB is a 970 g, 29 weeks of gestation infant, who received a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) for total parenteral nutrition. A #26-G polyurethane catheter was inserted on day seven ...

It sounds like you have not had training in PICC removal. If not, it's not appropriate for you to be removing PICCs. The individual who has ordered the line removal may have practiced in a facility ...

Patients who require hemodialysis (HD) are commonly exposed to peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) both before and after initiation of dialysis, and are subsequently much less likely to ...

Breast cancer treatments such as chemotherapy usually require frequent blood tests and usually need to be given through your vein, or through IVs. It can become painful to be repeatedly poked with ...

A few months ago, Bob Miele was diagnosed with a lung infection. "He was giving me oral medication, but they weren't having much of an effect," he said. So Bob was sent to Infusion Resource in East ...

The placement of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) routinely incorporates tip position confirmation using standard radiographs. In this study, we sought to determine whether real-time ...

Providing antibiotics via a PICC line in both the inpatient and outpatient settings may not be as benign as once accepted Manufacturers continue to produce defective products that fail and cause ...