Infusion phlebitis: prevention through simple interventions

• In: Hospital Pharmacy Section - Poster Session
• At: Salvadore (Brazil) (2006)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-024
• By: KHALIDI, Nabil (University of Michigan, United States of America)
• Co-author(s): Btaiche, Imad (University of Michigan, United States of America)
  
• Abstract:

  Medical and nursing personnel have traditionally focused on preventing and treating Infusion Phlebitis. Improvements in peripheral and central catheter insertion technique and care, and the introduction of safer vascular devices have contributed to a reduction in phlebitis but not its elimination. Chemical Phlebitis persists as a leading outcome..

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