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PICC Line Teaching 1818

PICC Line
Instructed patient check your skin where the 
catheter enters it every day. Look for signs of infection and other problems. Instructed patient call your health care provider if you: Have bleeding, redness or swelling at the PICC line or Midline site, have pain near the site or in your arm, have signs
 of infection (fever, chills), are short of breath.

Last updated November 13, 2017

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