Publications by authors named "Yehudit Isaacs"
Background: In elderly patients hospitalised in internal medicine departments, risk factors, preferable placement area and methods of securement of short peripheral venous catheters (SPVC) a unclear.
Aim: To determine the incidence and risk factors of adverse events using a transparent bordered dressing for securement in the dorsum of the hand or cubital fossa in consecutive patients hospitalised in an internal medicine department.
Methods: In a prospective observational study of patients admitted to a regional hospital with a SPVC, the dependent variable was the need to replace the catheter because of an adverse event (phlebitis, accidental removal, infiltration/occlusion).