Abstract
Objective To investigate application of local anesthesia on the success rate of PICC. Methods A retrospective analysis was carried out in patients (120 cases)receiving PICC from March 2004 to January 2006. Randomly selected 120 cases were divided into 2 groups, each with 60 cases and PICC was im-plemented with the conventional method or under local anesthesia respectively in the two groups. Psychological changes of patients and nurses,adverse reactions of pain, success rate and incidence rate of complications were observed. Results The two groups were different in the following aspect, success rate, psychological changes, adverse reactions of pain,etc (P<0.01). Conclusions Local anesthesia during PICC is conducive to raise the success rate of tube insertion and the elimination of other adverse factors, especially for coarse PICC suite. Key words: Local anesthesia; PICC; Feasibility; Study
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