Intravenous therapy: team work to avoid complications due to venous catheters

Abstract

The contemporary practice of medicine is related with the parenteral administration of many drugs. It is necessary to maintain a patent vascular line that permissive the drugs and fluids administration in therapeutics for many diseases. Since many years ago, there is a tendentious to the extrahospitalary management to the patients with chronic diseases and whose need intravenous drugs administration. The  treatments are  the most of the times for longer periods and many times for ever. There is a risk for complications in this situation, and one of the most important is infection. The purpose of this paper is to show a general guide from a specialized service in the management of intravascular devices to patients who need the parenteral administration of drugs with the fewer risk of complications. The specialized service needs  a physician, a nurse and  a clinical chemistry, all of them working around de same purpose: a medical service with quality. They need to establish the proceedings  of general management and the specials protocols that are require on a specific situation like the infectious or the obstruction complication. The strategies for the vascular cannulation, cure, technics for fluids and drugs administration are very important. The accomplish of the proceedings will let the evaluation and backwards to obtain  and guarantee a medical service with quality to the chronic patients the needs service at home.