Advanced Nursing Practice

Medical treatment in children is a great challenge for health providers; it requires high professional standards with sensitivity and creativity towards the ailing child and his family. One of the difficulty that caregivers faces is keep an open vein for the purpose of giving long inter vein  treatment and taking blood samples. The fear and pain that these actions can invoke may have a bad influence on the child's experiences in his present and future. This fact requires an easy and an available approach to central vein. A Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (Picc) gives an efficient and comfortable answer for children who are in need for a long period of vein access. 

 

In the last decade there was a significant increase in the usage of a Picc line Catheter but there are reports about frequent mechanical and bacterial complications. Therefore there isn't a consensus   for the type of central catheter that should be used. Further studies which will examine the risk factors that can predict complications when using Picc line catheter in children are needed.