Sentence examples for A picc from inspiring English sources

A PICC line increases the risk of blood clots and infections, so my mother switched to a PowerPort, a cylinder implanted under the skin near her collarbone, with a catheter leading to the large vein.

A PICC line was placed to allow replacement of electrolytes.

PICCs are placed by trained nurses who constitute a PICC team.

She needed a PICC — a peripherally inserted central catheter.

When I press start, the liquid is pumped through a drip chamber, then along a PICC line, and finally through the shunt in Brian's arm.

How would I have survived without Yvonne, faxing instructions to a hospital on the upkeep of a PICC line (a catheter on my arm)?

SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive — the body tasked with improving public transport for Manchester and its surrounding municipalities in the 1960s – made draft proposals for a Picc-Vic tunnel, "a proposed rail route beneath the city centre" forming "the centrepiece of a new electrified railway network for the region".

Many CF-patients with a PICC-line or PAC for OPAT initially had a peripheral line.

The alternative to a peripheral venous line could be a more permanent solution like a PICC-line or a PAC.

Two out of 23 (8.7 %) PICC-line insertions were thought to be so painful that the patient did not want a PICC-line implanted again and therefore wanted to use the peripheral venous line instead.

The primary reason for the patient to switch to a PICC-line or PAC for OPAT was the many problems they experienced with their peripheral lines such as frequent dislocations or blockages during treatment.