Prevalencia y factores de riesgo para Flebitis en pacientes del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca 2017

Abstract

Background: The use of peripheral venous catheters is one of the most frequent invasive procedures in hospital care. Similarly, complications associated with the use of your child and some of them may compromise the care process and put the patient's life at risk. The most frequent complication is phlebitis that is associated with a series of factors.

General objective: To determine the prevalence and risk factors for phlebitis in patients of the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca 2017

Methodology: A cross-sectional analytical observational study was carried out, with a sample of 164 patients from the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. A questionnaire was applied to know the sociodemographic data and some clinical variables such as: phlebitis, comorbidities, medication and catheter characteristics. The data analysis was performed using the SPSS package. A descriptive univariate analysis was carried out by frequencies and percentages. To determine the association with the OR statistic, with its 95% confidence interval, statistically significant values of p <0.05 were obtained.

Results: The prevalence of phlebitis was 18.9%. according to the phlebitis scale, 1+ was the most frequent. The main adverse event was catheter obstruction 26.8% and the most recent case was 24.4% and phlebitis 20.1%. A statistically significant association was found with the nutritional status, p = 0.009; comorbidities, p = 0.012; the caliber of the catheter, p = 0.004 and the use of antibiotics, p = 0.000.

Conclusions: The prevalence of phlebitis is high and is associated with nutritional status, comorbidities, and the size of the catheter and the use of antibiotics