If placing a PowerPICC just for CT, you have to look at the total patient:
Do they really need a central line for anything OTHER than the CT?
Otherwise putting in a PowerPICC and leaving it there is too great a risk
for very little benefit if they have no other IV access needs.
Nadine Nakazawa
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:42:48 -0400
We do the same as Nadine.
Leigh Ann
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No, but we do use ultrasound sound to place a peripheral 20 g angio right
above the antecub.
Obviously this is only by someone trained in US.
Nadine Nakazawa
>From: "Denise Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: question about CT
>Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:05:32 -0700 (PDT)
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>If you have a patient who needs a CT (that HAS to be power injected) and
>you absolutely cannot get a peripheral IV (even with ultrasound) do you
>place a power PICC for a 1 time procedure?
>
> This question has come up twice today.
>
> Thanks,
> Denise
>
>
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