intravenous chemotherapy is an important mean for the treatment of cancers. infusion phlebitis (ph) is a common and acute complication of chemotherapy. the frequency of ph is about 70% in patients undergoing chemotherapeutic management. it can induce the pain, increase the risk of thrombophlebitis, lead to incomplete follow-up, and thereby, affect the patient’s health status. respecting the gre...

In a single-blinded study involving 120 patients neither the incidence nor severity of phlebitis observed with cephapirin and cephalothin was significantly different.

This rare malady of obscure aetiology being characterized chiefly by its recurrent attacks of migrating-phlebitis in peripheral as well as in visceral veins. Moorhead and Abrahamson (1928) have described four cases, showing recurrent attacks of phlebitis in various sites, e.g., in the upper and lower limbs, in the mesenteric veins causing abdominal pain, melaena, etc., in the lungs producing pa...

Thrombophlebitis is a common complication of intravenous therapy with incidence of 24% to 29% (3, 6), which is rarely serious but the pain is often vc-ry bothersome (I). To minimise infusion phlebitis, various measures have been suggested (6). Woodhouse (8) used 'Movelat cream', as a preventive measure, containing I% adrenocortical extract, 0.2'" organoheparinoid, 22% salicylic acid in cream ba...