I had a Pic for over a month, it seemed like two, because they had to do more antibiotics and then I had to be breathing treatments with something like what was use in the pic line for another month. Mine was for Pseudomonas of the lung. I had no trouble with mine, but I was told that I could get get some kind of infection. During my most recent hospitalization, three weeks ago or pneumonia I could not keep the IV in and because I had no blood vessels that would work after it infiltrated. They tried to do two more pic lines at the hospital bed, but they would not go in at the bedside. They're going to take me down to radiology but I was taken to anesthesiology and the IV was put in my neck, but then decided to release me after about four days of antibiotic, because I had had about three days of IV in the arm . I know that pneumonia is different than Pseudomonas of the UTI. they did Me that they can treat Pseudomonas at home but not pneumonia.
I guess it depends on how much you want to stay out of the hospital. I know I always do. They had to teach my aid how to do the pic with the IV. Dana maybe you can Google the pic line, if you could not get more information from the nurse or doctor or hospital. I don't know how often it happens that you get an infection from having one, the technician that was trying to be the 2 pic lines told me a number and she said they rarely had infection, but they can't happen. I don't know how serious an infection can be in this line. **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15&ncid=aolhom00030000000001)
