Management, clinical outcomes, and complications of acute cannula-related peripheral vein phlebitis of the upper extremity: A retrospective study

Phlebology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 381-388

  Dunda, Sebastian E ^a   Demir, E ^b   Mefful, O J ^a   Grieb, G ^a   Bozkurt, A ^a   Pallua, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

complications; Peripheral catheters; thrombophlebitis; upper extremity; vein

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; IBUPROFEN; POLY(HEXAMETHYLENEBIGUANIDE); SULTAMICILLIN;

ACUTE CANNULA RELATED PERIPHERAL VEIN PHLEBITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL DRESSING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CAST APPLICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOREARM; GAUZE DRESSING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAND; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INDURATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SWELLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY PHLEBITIS; VEIN SURGERY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ACUTE DISEASE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; UPPER LIMB; VASCULARIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CATHETERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84936850055     PISSN: 02683555     EISSN: 14333031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268355514537254     Document Type: Article

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