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Phlebitis Care and Warm Wet Application

NCT05226312 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2022-09-09

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Summary

Phlebitis is an inflammation of the tunica intima layer of the vein. Intravenous administration of drugs with high pH and osmolarity via a peripheral intravenous catheter damages the vascular structure, causing the drug to leak out of the vessel and cause phlebitis. Planning the care of the area where phlebitis occurs is the responsibility of the nurses. When phlebitis symptoms are seen, the infusion is terminated, the treatment is continued from another area, the extremity is elevated, and warm application is started. However, studies in the literature on what, how many degrees, how many times a day, and how long the warm application should be made are limited. Therefore, this planned thesis study was designed as a randomized controlled experimental study to determine the effect of warm wet application in the care of peripheral intravenous catheter-related phlebitis. The study will be carried out in Ordu University Training and Research Hospital oncology, hematology, palliative, infection, and obstetrics services. The population of the study will be the patients with phlebitis symptoms, and the sample will be 70 patients determined by G power analysis. Volunteer patients with phlebitis symptoms after drug infusion with a peripheral intravenous catheter will be included in the study. Data will be obtained using the "Patient Information Form", "Phlebitis Follow-up Form" and "Phlebitis Care Schedule". The patients included in the study will be divided into experimental and control groups by the randomization method. A warm wet compress will be applied to the phlebitis developing area of the patients in the experimental group, three times a day for three days. No intervention will be made in the control group. The data will be evaluated by using the SPSS 22.0 package program at a significance level of p\<0.05 with a 95% confidence interval, and by Student-t or Mann-Whitney-U test in independent groups according to their suitability for normal distribution. It is thought that the results of the study will reduce the symptoms of phlebitis, guide nurses towards care and increase patient satisfaction.

Conditions

  • Pain
  • Phlebitis
  • Nursing Caries

Interventions

OTHER

Local Warm Compress

The warm application will be made by the researcher for 15 minutes three times a day according to the local warm application process steps.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • T.C. ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fatma Aksoy, RN · T.C. ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ

  • Sule Bıyık Bayram, PhD · Karadeniz Teknik University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-08
Primary Completion
2022-03-10
Completion
2022-04-10

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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