While traveling is fun and thrilling for most, it can be exhausting and troublesome for those with a PICC line. You are required to pay the utmost attention to the PICC line to ensure that it stays in place and continues to do its job. Failure to do so can lead to a variety of health complications, which may pose a serious threat when traveling.
Hospitalized patients are at a high risk of developing intravenous borne infections. About two million nosocomial infections, approximately 850,000 are classified as catheter-associated infections (CAIs), with 50,000 categorized by CDC surveillance criteria as catheter-associated bacteremias (CABs). The majority of these...
