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Abstract
Up to 80% of hospitalized patients require intravenous therapy, making peripheral venous catheters the most widely used endovascular device in hospitals. Peripheral intravenous catheter is a safe device and has a low risk of life-threatening consequences when appropriately used, but it frequently experiences peripheral intravenous catheter problems such as phlebitis and infiltration. Aim: This study aimed to assess peripheral intravenous catheter-related phlebitis, infiltration, and its contributing factors among patients at Port-Said hospital. The study design was descriptive. Setting and subject: The study was conducted at the Universal Health Insurance Hospital in Port-Said medical and surgical departments and the convenient sample contained (364) adult patients with intravenous catheters. Tools: Tool I:part1;patients demographic characteristic, part2; Contributing factors assessment include four parts (patient characteristics, nurses’ characteristics, intravenous characteristics, medication, and fluid characteristics).Tool II: Part 1; Phlebitis Scale, Part 2; Infiltration Scales. Results: This study showed that 45.6% of studied patients developed phlebitis, and 25.5% of them developed infiltration. There was a statistically significant relation between phlebitis, infiltration, and patients’ age, Type of chronic diseases, nurses’ years of experience, the IV catheter site, extension tube, medications as antibiotics, and infusion method. Conclusion: patients’ age, body mass index, type of chronic diseases, nurses’ years of experience, the IV catheter site, medications, and infusion method were contributing factors of phlebitis and infiltration.