Nurse’s activities in the prevention of phlebitis caused by medicines

• Autor(a) principal: Borges, Marlise dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Silva, Jorge Luiz Lima da, Almeida, Giulia Lemos de, Santos, Lia Cristina Galvão dos, Soares, Lunna Machado, Rego, Vittória Thiengo Silveira Moreira, Silva, João Victor Lima da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/5569
• topic: Nurse’s role; Phlebitis; Catheterization.; Papel do profissional de Enfermagem; Flebite; Cateterismo.; Rol de la Enfermera; Flebitis; Cateterismo.

Objective: describe the nurse`s team care in the prevention and treatment of the complications in peripheric venous puncture in patients in the ICU. Method: the methodology used was descriptive, carried out through a bibliographic review published in the period from 2008 to 2019, whose survey was performed in a virtual environment in the Virtual Health Library (VHL), on the bases: Medline and Lilacs. Results: phlebitis can be prevented by performing aseptic technique during insertion of the venous device and adopting suitable material of appropriate size for vein caliber, preferably of small caliber, which is flexible with high resistance to bending, structural integrity, easy insertion, low thrombogenicity and bacterial adherence. Conclusion: it was possible to identify that the ducts are very similar in different services and that most care are common nursing procedures and have proven efficacy through scientific studies.