A COMPARATIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WARM FOMENTATION VERSUS GLYCERINE MAGNESIUM SULFATE APPLICATION AMONG THROMBOPHLEBITIS PATIENTS

Jyothsna N; Hemalatha N

Volume : VIII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

A COMPARATIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WARM FOMENTATION VERSUS GLYCERINE MAGNESIUM SULFATE APPLICATION AMONG THROMBOPHLEBITIS PATIENTS

Jyothsna N, Hemalatha N

Abstract :

Today in hospital setting, intravenous therapy, has become major component of patient care, intravascular lines are used for purpose of varying from monitoring pressures, administrating drugs and fluids. A common problem encountered during IV therapy is the phlebitis, i.e. the inflammation of the venous wall near the point of entry of the cannula into the veins. It is often due to patient movement and disruption of vein at the site of insertion of the cannula. The patients who are on cytotoxic drugs, hyper osmolar agents and vaso active drugs are more prone to phlebitis. Present work done by using the quantitative research approach by using quasi experimental pre and posttest research design was used to assess the effectiveness of warm fomentation versus glycerin magnesium sulfate application among thrombophlebitis patient The collected data was organized, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics based on the objectives of the study and Effectiveness of intervention will be analyzed by using paired ‘t’ test and independent ‘t’ test. The study result shows that A among Group–I(warm fomentation) on 3rd day of intervention 14 (47%) thrombophlebitis patient had observable stage of first sign of phlebitis , and 15(50%) having early stage of phlebitis, 1( 3%) patient had medium stage of phlebitis. Among Group–II (glycerin magnesium sulfate) posttest on 3^rd day 19 (63.34%) thrombophlebitis patient had IV site appears healthy, were as 10[33.33%] had observable stage of first sign of phlebitis, and 1[3.33%] had early stage of phlebitis. The obtained ’’t’’ value of 20, was highly significant at P<0.01 level. It indicates that the glycerin magnesium sulfate was more effective than the warm fomentation on thrombophlebitis patients on second day ofintervention