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Bud
Success rates of RN placed PICCs

Does anyone have references as to an 'accepted' success rate for RN placed PICC lines?

I searched the forum, but didn't seem to find anything. I apologize in advance if this is an old topic.

Thank you.

Bud

DML RN
If I recall correctly,Kathy

If I recall correctly,Kathy K noted 98% success rates in this article:

2. David,J, Kokotis,K. A new perspective for PICC line insertions: Cost effectiveness associated with an independent PICC service. Journal of the Association of Vascular Access Vol 9,No. 2 June 2004 (93-98)

In this one,rates are 93-95%:

Hornsby,S,Matter,K, Beets,B, Casey,S,Kokotis,K. Cost losses associated with the "PICC,stick and run team" concept. Journal of Intravenous Nursing Vol 28(1),Jan/Feb 2005 (45-53)

I have other personal correspondences that cite rates that vary from 80-some to essentially 100%,with a mean of about 95%. I don't think that there is an "accepted"  minimum published anywhere. With a thorough didactic course and sufficient supervised training a nurse using US and MST should be able to function at at least  (IMHO) a 95% success rate. There are plenty of programs that acheive this.

anna liang
90%  http://www.jvir.org/cg
90% 

http://www.jvir.org/cgi/reprint/14/9/S231.pdf
Gwen Irwin
This is not an annual

This is not an annual success rate, but we had an exceptional & recording setting for the number of PICCs during the month of May 2007.

The success rates were 97%, 98%, 100%, 100%, 100%.

Gwen Irwin

Austin, Texas

Gwen Irwin
Sorry, I didn't mean for

Sorry, I didn't mean for that to sound like bragging, but it did.  I am so proud of the people that work with me that I sent that success rate, AND didn't address the question "references as to an 'accepted' success rate".  However, in the internal email about the success rate to our network of hospitals, I did brag and did mention that we are from Texas, so bragging is OK.........OOPS!  I am red-faced now that it sounded like bragging to you!  Please forgive me.

Gwen Irwin

Bud
Gwen: thanks for the reply.

Gwen:

thanks for the reply. I would brag too if I had numbers like that.

thanks to everyone for their replies. We're doing over 90% success rate, which I think is acceptable, considering a lot of these people are really sick.

Bud Lavin, RN, CEN

Manager - PICC Team

St. Mary's Hospital

Passaic NJ

lavinb(at)smh-passaic.org

Bud Lavin, RN, CEN

Manager - PICC Team

St. Mary's Hospital

Passaic NJ

lavinb(at)smh-passaic.org

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