Morbimortality associated with intravenous boarding in very ill pediatrics’ patients

Abstract

The insertion of intravenous catheters has converted itself in an indispensable procedure in Pediatric Intensive Care Units. The objective is caracterizing the morbimortality associated with intravenous boarding in very ill pediatrics’ patients. Descriptive, longitudinal prospective study, during 2016, in the Intensive Care Unit of the Pepe Portilla Pediatric Hospital, Pinar of the Río, The Universe: It got constituted for 182 patients admitted in the period of study and they required intravenous boarding. The information got from patient's charts and the unit's record of continuous morbility itself, and it was processed with SPSS statistical parcel for Windows, the test of hypothesis of proportions and the percentages were utilized. The intravenous boarding was accomplished to the 51.12% of the admitted patients, 31.46% for femoral road and 60.83% to patients under one year old. Principal use was the administration of medications (100%), the 56.59% had the boarding over 10 days, the 12.08% of patients presented complications, infection was more frequent. The conclusions are high incidence of the application of intravenous boarding exists; infection for catheter is the correlated complication more frequent.