https://revistateoria.uchile.cl/index.php/RCHE <p>It is a periodic publication of the Departamento de Enfermería de la Universidad de Chile of an academic and scientific nature and subject to the Open Access policies. It is aimed at professionals and students of Health Sciences and other related ones. Its purpose is to develop knowledge of Nursing and Health Sciences by disseminating original articles, review articles, essays, case studies, thematic updates, student contributions, and letters to the editor.</p> <p>The abbreviation of its title is Rev. chil. enferm, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, legends, and bibliographical references.</p> <p>It is a digital publication, and its ISSN is 2452-5839. It is financed by the Departamento de Enfermería de la Universidad de Chile.</p> Departamento de Enfermeria es-ES Revista Chilena de Enfermería 2452-5839 <p>Authors who publish in this journal do so under the following conditions:</p> <p>The authors retain the copyrights (copyright) and give the journal the right of first publication under the Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Attribution-NonComercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> that allows third parties to use what is published provided that they refer to the author or authors of the work and its publication in this journal.</p> <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img style="border-width: 0;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Licencia Creative Commons" /></a></p> <p>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional</a>.</p> <p>The use is non-commercial and the article may be modified and distributed, but under the same Creative Commons Attribution-NonComercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license as the original material.</p> <p>The authors are free to make other contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article they publish in this journal (such as including it in an institutional collection or publishing it in a book), as long as they clearly indicate the original publication of the work in this journal.</p> https://revistateoria.uchile.cl/index.php/RCHE/article/view/76926 <p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Peripheral venous catheters are widely used to administer intravenous therapy. However, they are associated with a high rate of complications. <strong>Objective:</strong> To describe adverse events related to the use of peripheral venous catheters in hospitalized patients undergoing emergency care. <strong>Methodology:</strong> This descriptive study analyzed information up to 30 days before the data collection date. The population comprised hospitalized patients in a high-complexity public hospital in Santiago, Chile. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics and logistic regression models. <strong>Results:</strong> A total of 602 catheters were analyzed in 248 patients, with a peripheral venous catheter prevalence of 51.4% among hospitalized patients. The sample consisted of 46.3% women, with a mean age of 52.8 years. The medical-surgical adult unit had the highest proportion of catheters (44.3%). Of the 399 catheters with complete records, 264 (66.2%) were electively removed upon completion of intravenous therapy, whereas 135 (33.8%) were removed due to an adverse event. The most common adverse events were infiltration/extravasation without tissue damage (9.2 per 100 peripheral venous catheters), followed by phlebitis (7.7 per 100 peripheral venous catheters), and patient self-removal (4.0 per 100 peripheral venous catheters). <strong>Conclusions:</strong> There is a need to enhance and disseminate adequate clinical practices to prevent adverse events in patients requiring peripheral venous catheters, focusing on the most prevalent complications.</p> Nicolas Ramirez Aguilera Paulina Veloz Medina Franco Hernández Jara Francisco Funez Toledo Ximena Martínez Asenjo Catalina Rodríguez Garrido Belén Campos Salazar Vanessa Letelier Alvarado Felipe De La Fuente Copyright (c) 2025 Revista Chilena de Enfermería https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-01-31 2025-01-31 7 76926 76926 10.5354/2452-5839.2025.76926