What are the advantages of a PICC line?
1- Delivering highly concentrated nutrition or medications to your baby that would be too irritating to your baby’s smaller veins. This highly concentrated nutrition will give your baby the extra calories he/she needs to gain weight faster. 2- PICC lines are less likely to infiltrate (become dislodged out of the vein) than regular IV’s, and can be left in place for weeks or even months at a time. This can be very helpful if your baby will need intravenous nutrition or medications for a long period of time. 3- PICC lines drastically reduce the number of times your baby needs to be stuck for an IV, and will also decrease his/her risk of infection from many IV sticks. 4- PICC lines are placed into babies at the bedside and do not require the baby to go to the operating room.
