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- Title
Complicações da via subcutânea na infusão de medicamentos e soluções em cuidados paliativos.
- Authors
Natália de Almeida Barbosa Guedes; Laís Samara de Melo; Fernanda Batista Oliveira Santos; Jaqueline Almeida Guimarães Barbosa
- Abstract
Objective: to characterize the complications associated with the use of the subcutaneous route for infusion of drugs and solutions in palliative care. Methods: observational, prospective study conducted at the Palliative Care Unit of a general teaching hospital. Results: the study analized seventy-eight patients in palliative care, in whom 254 punctures for infusion of drugs and/or solutions through the subcutaneous route were made. Most patients were elderly (87.3%) and malnourished (69.2%). In 33.0%, the route was indicated for symptom control; in 50.0%, the puncture occurred in the anterolateral thigh flap; 65.4% of the punctures showed no complication. Among the identified complications, 9.4% were edema and 9.1% hyperemia, and 53.8% occurred in the deltoid region. Cellulite occurred in only 3.5%. Conclusion: the infusion of solutions using the subcutaneous route can be considered a safe alternative, with risk of complications which are mostly reversible and with low potential to cause damage to patients.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC medical centers; ADIPOSE tissues; EDEMA; HYPEREMIA; LONGITUDINAL method; PALLIATIVE treatment; OPERATIVE surgery; DELTOID muscles; HYPODERMOCLYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SUBCUTANEOUS infusions
- Publication
Rev Rene, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1517-3852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15253/2175-6783.20192040933