Bedside peripherally inserted central catheter placement: focus on the procedure

A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) provides long-term venous access through a peripheral vein in an upper extremity. trained physician should insert PICC, but any medical professional, such as specially nurse, can perform insertion. Appropriate PICC placement reduces complications, malposition and malfunction of the catheter, thrombosis, infections, overall performance is better. Complications depend mainly on adequacy puncture or positioning tip. Better depends learning accurate techniques for Here, procedure bedside ultrasonography-guided placement, including patient positioning, preparation, assessment measurement, technique, tip described.