Background: To determine the effect of sesame oil in preventing phlebitis that may occur during intravenous therapy in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Material and Method: A randomized controlled interventional study will be conducted with patients treated in the coronary intensive care unit of a university hospital. The population of the study will be the patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery and administered parenteral amiodarone infusion. The power analysis was carried out by taking the study by. The sample size was determined as 44 patients. Personal Information Form and Visual Infusion Phlebitis Scale will be used to collect data. Sesame oil will be applied to the patients in the intervention group as 10 drops, 10 cm around the cannula, for 10 minutes. This administration will be repeated every eight hours during the 24-hour amiodarone infusion. No application will be made by the researcher to the patients in the control group. At the end of each 24 hours, patients in both groups will be evaluated by the investigator on the Visual Infusion Phlebitis Scale. Descriptive statistics, chi square, independent t test and Fisher's exact test will be used to evaluate the data.
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Visual Infusion Phlebitis Scale
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