• Revista clínica española · Mar 2021

    Prospective cohort study on the management and complications of peripheral venous catheters in patients hospitalised in Internal Medicine.

    • C López-López, L Collados-Gómez, M E García-Manzanares, A M Segura-Paz, A M López-Gutierrez, and S Pérez-García.
    • Grupo de Investigación en Cuidados (InveCuid), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital 12 de Octubre (imas12), Madrid, España; Facultad de Enfermería, Fisioterapia y Podología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España. Electronic address: candelas.lopez@salud.madrid.org.
    • Rev Clin Esp. 2021 Mar 1; 221 (3): 151156151-156.

    ObjectiveTo analyse compliance with the recommendations on the insertion-maintenance of peripheral venous catheter (PVC) and the incidence of complications according to the healthcare department that inserted the PVCs.Patients And MethodsWe conducted a prospective cohort follow-up study of PVCs, from their insertion in the emergency or internal medicine (IM) department until their withdrawal.ResultsWe monitored 590 PVCs, 274 from the emergency department and 316 from IM. In terms of compliance with the process indicators, there was a cannulation rate in the antecubital fossa of 3.5 and 1.6 per 100 catheters-day (P<.001) in the emergency and IM departments, respectively. The sterile placement rates were 1.6 and 12.4 (P<.001), and the rate for transparent dressing was 2.1 and 11.5 (P<.001) per 100 catheters-day in the emergency and IM departments, respectively. The complications rates showed no differences between the departments. The most common complication was phlebitis (95 cases, 16.1%).ConclusionsCompliance with the insertion-maintenance recommendations for PVC showed differences between the departments; however, the incidence of complications was similar.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier España, S.L.U. and Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI). All rights reserved.

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