Abstract
Abstract: This study aims to determine the effect of warm water compress therapy on the incidence of hyperemia in 40 patients with phlebitis at the Inpatient Installation of H. Hasan Basry General Hospital Kandangan. Research method used quasi-experimental with two group; control and intervention. The control group was untreated phlebitis, while the intervention group was a phlebitis patient treated with warm water compresses. Data collection was collected by measuring the redness diameter before and after warm compress therapy. The result showed that the mean of intervention group diameter before treatment 49.3 mm and after treatment 40.2 mm. The mean diameter of control group before treatment 48.1 mm and after treatment 46.4 mm. The mean diameter of intervention group was decreased 9.1 mm and 1.7 mm in the control group. Statistically result test show that there was a significant difference of mean hyperemia diameter between intervention and control group (p<0.05). Statistically result test also shows that there was a significant difference of mean hyperemia between pre- and post-treatment with warm water (p<0.05). It was concluded that the warm compress therapy could decreased the incidence of hyperemia in phlebitis patients. Keywords: Hyperemia, Phlebitis, Warm Compress Therapy
Highlights
Phlebitis is an inflammation of a vein
Warm compress therapy can reduce the diameter of hyperemia in phlebitis patients
Due to normal distributed data, the statistical analysis used paired and unpaired T test. It showed that the mean ratio of hyperemia diameter between the control group and the intervention was significantly different ( p
Summary
Phlebitis is an inflammation of a vein. Phlebitis is an infection of microorganisms during hospitalization, with clinical manifestations appearing at least 72 hours.[1] Phlebitis is caused by chemical irritation, mechanical factors and bacterial agents that often occur as a complication of intravenous therapy. Patient will get intravenous therapy using infusion in all health care settings such as acute care, emergency care, ambulatory care and home health care. More than 60% of hospitalized patients received intravenous therapy and were at risk of developing phlebitis.[2]. Symptoms of phlebitis are pain, swelling, redness, induration and palpable in the vein attached to catheter. The most common visual response is redness (hyperemia) of the skin at the intravenous site.[7]
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