Hospital-based research nurses provided the assigned, prepackaged PICC to practitioners, who would insert the catheter after randomization. Practitioners inserting the PICCs were provided training ...

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This patient will require a different type of central catheter. The presence of upper extremity or subclavian thrombosis is another contraindication for bedside PICC insertion, whether or not ...

as adhesives may cause damage to the catheter. Studies have shown that the use of securement devices is safer and more effective than suturing the PICC adjacent to the insertion site. The use of ...

For patients referred for peripherally inserted central catheters ... incidence of device failure or of catheter-acquired bloodstream infection according to PICC type," the authors write.

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