Infusion delivers medicine, blood products, fluids, nutrition or other therapies directly into the bloodstream.
If you need several treatment sessions, we may place a small, thin tube, called a catheter, in your upper arm and thread it all the way up to a large vein near the heart. Called a peripherally inserted central catheter, or a PICC for short, and this line can stay in place for several weeks and prevents a new needle stick each time you visit. Your nurse can insert a PICC line at the Outpatient Infusion, located in the AnMed Cancer Center, eliminating the need to visit another facility.
