Authors : NedaShahbazi , AbbasAghaei , Khadijeh Najafi Ghobadi, Bahare Lotfi, Zahra Shaahmadi, Toraj Ahmadi Juibari and Somayyeh Shalchi Oghli
Abstract: Phlebitis is one of the serious complications of catheter which is still one of the most important problems in hospitalized patients. Therefore, the present study has been conducted to determine the factors associated with the severity of phlebitis due to peripheral venous catheters in hospitalized patients of Imam Khomeini hospital in Kermanshah, 2015.This study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The case study was all admitted patients (who had peripheral venous catheter and phlebitis) of the infectious diseases, ICU and internal sectors of Imam Khomeini hospital in Kermanshah for the time period of April to September 2015. Jackson’sevaluating checklist has been applied asa criterionto recognize phlebitis based on touch and observation of the researchers. Therequired collecting data has been appliedin SPSS v.21 Software. All analyzes have been examined at a significance level of 5%.In this study, 201 cases of phlebitis were identified. Phlebitis type IIwas observed in 54.2%of cases and other cases were phlebitis type. The variables of age and gender had no significant relationship with the phlebitis (p>0.05).The results of logistic regression analysis showed that hospitalization in the ICU sector (in comparison with the internal sector), receiving ceftriaxone and non-ceftriaxone type ofantibiotics (in comparison with patients who did not receive antibiotics) and angiocath installation time of 48-72 h (in comparison with patients who had angiocath installation timeless than 24 h) had higher chance to get severe phlebitis. Furthermore, the risk of severe phlebitis is lower in patients who were ininfection sector in comparison with internal sector.The results of this study showed that the risk of severe phlebitis has been increased by hospitalized patients in ICU, receiving antibiotics and increased duration of angiocath installation.
NedaShahbazi , AbbasAghaei , Khadijeh Najafi Ghobadi, Bahare Lotfi, Zahra Shaahmadi, Toraj Ahmadi Juibari and Somayyeh Shalchi Oghli, 2016. The Study of Effective Factorson the Severity of Phlebitis Related to Peripheral Venous Catheters for Hospitalized Patientsin the Imam Khomeini Hospital of Kerman Shah, 2015. International Business Management, 10: 5044-5050.