Red streaks were crisscrossing from his shoulder toward the middle of his chest. McAvoy’s condition ... a peripherally inserted central catheter, or a PICC line, delivering medication to treat ...

Sometimes this is through a long plastic tube that goes into a large vein in your chest. These include central lines and PICC lines. They usually stay in your veins for many months. So, you don’t need ...

A recently developed cancer treatment called chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR T-cell therapy, for short) offers hope to people whose diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has proved ...

I don’t like seeing a tube going into my chest, so I don’t imagine other people want to ... there is this sense of like evangelical ‘yeah this is great’. Whereas with the PICC line we are all ...

Researchers describe how they developed a program for home-based management of indwelling PICC to improve patient self-management.

Dr. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national sepsis attorney and product liability attorney, states,“There are finally safer alternatives, hydrophilic PICC lines and mid-lines, than the polyurethane catheters.

She did x-rays every 12 hours and had a PICC line (peripherally inserted central catheter) put in her thigh to administer her medicines. The PICC line is a long and thin flexible tube that’s ...

(NEXSTAR) – The deadly and drug-resistant fungus Candida auris is under close surveillance as health experts work to calm its spread. Candida auris, also called C. auris, was first identified in ...

Handing over a special hand-crafted teddy bear fitted with a faux picc line to mimic Mia's treatment tube, Bronnie shared: "I couldn't find anyone who makes bears who has a picc line fitted.

People with catheters, breathing tubes, feeding tubes and PICC lines are at the highest risk because the pathogen can enter the body through these types of devices. The fungus can survive on ...