Suppurative Phlebitis of an Arm Vein from a “Scalp-Vein Needle”

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Abstract
CANNULA-related sepsis is acknowledged to be a major complication of intravenous therapy1; the risk appears highest with plastic catheters. Catheter-associated sepsis usually responds rapidly to removal of the catheter.1 In contrast, suppurative phlebitis in which the vein becomes filled with pus is lethal unless treated surgically.2 3 4 Rare except in burned patients,4 this disastrous complication almost always involves the lower extremity or the central veins in patients without burns, or follows prolonged cannulation with a plastic catheter.2 , 3 In the following case of cancer, associated with candidemia, sepsis originated from a "scalp-vein needle" in a wrist vein.Case SummaryA 23-year-old . . .

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