[Phlebitis in peripheral catheters (I). Incidence and risk factors].
The type of pathology and the current therapeutic tendencies justify that endovenous therapy is the most frequently selected one. Although it has multiple advantages, it bears with it a series of infectious type complications (bacterial infections, phlebitis and thrombophlebitis). Even though bacterial infections in peripheral intravascular vessels have a low occurrence rate, which some authors list as between 1 and 2%, in central intravascular vessels, their occurrence is usually higher. Phlebitis is one of the complications most frequently associated with the use of peripheral intravascular catheters.
Carballo
Monserrat
M
Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona.
Llinas
Montserrat
M
Feijoo
M
M
D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D010689:Phlebitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D012307:Risk Factors