Brittany | Acute Care NP (@_nursebebe) - Read more about PICC lines HERE 👇🏾👇🏾 Here’s a little background: Patient required a peripherally inserted central catheter, or a PICC, to receive long term infusion therapy. A single view chest x-ray was ordered to confirm that the tip of the catheter was in the correct placement and to exclude the occurrence of a pneumothorax. Above is the image. The tip of a PICC line should terminate in a major vein. Complications of an improperly placed PICC line