Low-angled peripheral intravenous catheter tip placement decreases phlebitis

Journal of Vascular Access

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 542-547

  Tanabe, Hidenori ^a,b   Murayama, Ryoko ^a   Yabunaka, Koichi ^a   Oe, Makoto ^a   Takahashi, Toshiaki ^a   Komiyama, Chieko ^c   Sanada, Hiromi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TERUMO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catheter tip angle; Peripheral intravenous catheters; Phlebitis; Polyurethane; Teflon; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; POLYURETHAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER REMOVAL; CATHETER TIP ANGLE; CATHETER TIP TRANSDUCER; CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PALPATION; PERIPHERAL INFUSION CATHETER; PHLEBITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWELLING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JAPAN; LOWER LIMB; MIDDLE AGED; PLIABILITY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UPPER LIMB; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICE; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBITIS; PLIABILITY; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POLYURETHANES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOKYO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UPPER EXTREMITY; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICES; VEINS;

EID: 84994521884     PISSN: 11297298     EISSN: 17246032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5301/jva.5000601     Document Type: Article

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