When I saw you do this in person the other day, it blew my mind. You did it in like 2 minutes! I searched TH-cam for videos about it but couldn’t find any. I’m so glad you posted this!
Great question! Unfortunately, since there are not an endless amount of diameter length combos, I usually end up picking my diameter as my priority. If you rely on too large a diameter you’ll be dealing with painful foot swelling, and I try to always prioritize patient comfort. For length, ideally a PICC will sit in the caudal vena cava, so measuring just caudal to the liver would be ideal placement. But, often times these catheters end up being a little short depending on your patients conformation, so as long as it samples well I’m also totally happy with my PICC terminating in a femoral vein.
When I saw you do this in person the other day, it blew my mind. You did it in like 2 minutes! I searched TH-cam for videos about it but couldn’t find any. I’m so glad you posted this!
Thank you! I’m also glad I finally got it up!
Thank you for the visual! Next to nobody has videos accessible like this for education and we appreciate it (:
Thank you so much!
Please keep sharing all things ER and ICU!!! You’re so fast!!
Thank you!
So happy to see you posting again!!! Your videos have been so helpful to me as a tech taking on the ICU during the overnights 😊
Thank you for working overnights, it is an often overlooked position that the whole hospital NEEDS to stay open!
keep it up , really appreciate
Thank you!
Make more videos 🎉
Thank you! Just posted one but let me know if there’s anything specific you had in mind!
What are your landmarks on how far should the picc line be ? Gage I feel comfortable but length is always my question
Great question! Unfortunately, since there are not an endless amount of diameter length combos, I usually end up picking my diameter as my priority. If you rely on too large a diameter you’ll be dealing with painful foot swelling, and I try to always prioritize patient comfort.
For length, ideally a PICC will sit in the caudal vena cava, so measuring just caudal to the liver would be ideal placement. But, often times these catheters end up being a little short depending on your patients conformation, so as long as it samples well I’m also totally happy with my PICC terminating in a femoral vein.