Efficacy of Topical Heparin in Preventing the Incidence of Thrombophlebitis After Peripheral Intra Venous Cannulation.

A common complication associated with Intra Venous therapy is Phlebitis.Numerous literature articles have written that emphasize that phlebitis can occur in more then 50 % of patients receiving IV therapy.It is essential to be able to identify who are at risk of developing thrombophlebitis.Heparin reduces the superficial thrombophlebitis.This study was conducted at yenepoya medical college hospital The patients were divided into two groups, using closed envelope method.Group H included 70 patients who received topical heparin and Group C included 70 patients who did not receive topical heparin.The patients were studied for the results on the basis of Phlebitic scale at the intervals of 0 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours.the mean age was calculated as 33.94There was significantly lesser score in group H (receiving topical heparin) in all time periods with p value of <0.001.andwe concluded that prophylaxis with topical heparin is useful in managing a patient with intravenous cannula.