A PICC line can look routine. For newborns and preterm infants, with fragile, thread-like veins and few access points, it is a lifeline.

A PICC line can look routine. For newborns and preterm infants, whose veins are fragile and thread-like and whose access points are few, it is a lifeline. Securing that access is technically demanding and clinically important.

At King's College Hospital Jeddah, our paediatric interventional radiologist placed three PICC lines in babies weighing under 2 kg.

These placements reflect the care we provide for our youngest patients, and they sit within our wider interventional radiology service.