Table 3.
Data related to the removal of the devices.
| PIVC N = 21,313 |
ED-PIVC N = 689 |
ECC N = 1,335 |
UVC N = 521 |
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| Reason for removal | Therapy success | 8,318 (43.1%) | 197 (30.9%) | 903 (76.9%) | 329 (65.9%) |
| Therapy failurea | 10,747 (55.7%) | 430 (67.5%) | 137 (11.7%) | 83 (16.6%) | |
| PIVIEb | 5,347 (49.7%) | 210 (48.8%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Leaking | 2,263 (21.0%) | 52 (12.1%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Phlebitis | 1,711 (15.9%) | 138 (32.1%) | 7 (5.1%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Discoloration | 44 (0.4%) | 2 (0.46%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Suspected sepsis | 1 (0.009%) | 0 (0%) | 31 (21.9%) | 3 (3.6%) | |
| Catheter-related complication | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 63 (45.9%) | 64 (77.1%) | |
| Maintenance-related complication | 1,381 (12.85%) | 28 (6.5%) | 37 (27.0%) | 16 (19.2%) | |
| Missing | Administrative censoring | 225 | 10 | 133 | 87 |
| Not administrated | 2,023 | 52 | 161 | 22 |
UVC, umbilical venous catheter; PIVC, peripheral intravenous catheter; ED-PIVC, extended dwell-peripheral intravenous catheter; ECC, epicutaneo-caval catheter.
Data are represented as absolute numbers (percentages) or mean ± standard deviation, as appropriate. This is a retrospective study design and for some parameters, the data values were incomplete due to the unavailability of the information in the patients’ record files thus all the percentage values were computed using nonmissing values.
Therapy failure = PIVIE, leaking (at the insertion site), phlebitis, discoloration, suspected sepsis, maintenance-related complications, catheter-related complications, maintenance-related complications (=accidental removal and occlusion), catheter-related complications (=leaking due to catheter damage, breakage of the catheter).
PIVIE = peripheral intravenous infiltration/extravasation.