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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 1 case of PICC catheter care due to serious phlebitis [Keywords:] PICC catheter; phlebitis; Care Peripherally inserted central venous catheter (peripherally ihserted central catheter PICC) is clinically used cancer chemotherapy drug delivery means, to improve the quality of life of cancer patients, reduce adverse effects caused by chemotherapy, has played a positive role, by Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) has developed into a safe and effective catheter technology, with its obvious advantages in clinical practice has been widely used, it offers patients a painless infusion channel I .2004 Branch carried out since the PICC catheter, catheter success rate, greatly reducing the need for chemotherapy patients and long-term parenteral nutrition in patients with pain. exploration of the method for simple, convenient, less complications and nursing staff is easy to grasp. I Division of PICC line tube 350 cases, no severe phlebitis, only in October 2008 a serious vein thrombosis in 1 case, are as follows. 1 Clinical data 1.1 General information on female patients, aged 60, diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast, the patient in September 2008 Zimo touched the left breast the size of a peanut painless nodules, to the Hospital of mammography and biopsy shown on the left breast invasive ductal carcinoma. Accompanying the left breast radical mastectomy and lymph node dissection and postoperative chemotherapy to our department. because of the left breast after radical mastectomy and lymph node dissection can lead to lymphatic flow disorders, conventional left arm is not used for intravenous infusion. 1.2 Contraindications PICC catheterization exclude contraindications. PICC catheter for patients, good psychological care of patients and the catheter before, during and after the mission, choose the right side of the arm cephalic vein line produced by the United States Bud single chamber 4Fr three-valve-t