Radiographic Assessment of PICCs
Course overview / registration
- Course ID
- Registration Fee
- Class Schedule:
- Instructor:
- Location
- RADD 701
- $145
- To be Announced
- Jamie Bowen Santolucito, RN,CRNI,VA-BC
- Portland, OR
At the end of this course the participant will be able to:
- Discuss relevant legal and practice considerations.
- Describe basic fundamentals of chest radiography.
- Identify relevant structures on the frontal CXR, including the right atrial appendage and the cavoatrial junction, osseous and airway structures and their relationship to underlying vasculature, arterial anatomy and select aberrant vasculature.
- Describe effective tools and techniques to enhance radiographic assessment of PICCs.
- Review numerous cases demonstrating optimal, suboptimal and malpositioned PICCs.
This program will address basic fundamentals of chest radiography including radiographic densities, exposure, patient position and rotation, degree of inspiration and search pattern. Contrast-enhanced digital imaging with direct correlation to the frontal chest radiograph will be used to accurately identify relevant structures such as the right and left mediastinal borders, right atrial appendage, cavo-atrial junction, arterial anatomy and aberrant vasculature. Osseous and airway structures will be defined radiographically as an alternative method to determine optimal PICC tip location when vascular landmarks are obscured. Numerous cases will be presented and discussed demonstrating optimal, suboptimal and malpositioned PICCs.
Target audience includes healthcare providers inserting and/or maintaining PICCs.
Jamie has developed and presented PICC education programs to tens of thousands of clinicians, internationally. She is the author of multiple publications and has served as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Infusion Nursing Society Standards of Practice, the Item Writing Review Board for the Association for Vascular Access Certification Corporation and the Association for Vascular Access Professional Advisory Council.
Jamie is the recipient of numerous awards including “Nurses of the Year Award” from Oregon Health & Science University Hospital as well as the Suzanne LaVere Herbst Award from the Association for Vascular Access. The award is the highest recognition AVA offers in acknowledgment of substantial contributions to the art and science of vascular access.