Upper arm swollen bluish tinge, pain, & warm 9 days after IV for surgery?

hubby had catheter ablation for SVT 9 days ago. no problems till today now the inside of his arm above the crook is swollen, kind of blue looking and painful to touch and warm. what the heck! He had an IV in his upper arm, and it was a very difficult stick, much digging, and changing directions without pulling it all the way out, nurse said some vauge stuff about hitting a block where nothing would flow into the vein, any way was wondering if anyone has experienced or heard of this after this many days. Thanks T

Yes heard of it. had it happen to my ex-husband, he has had several surgeries.

he may have a clot. or he could have an infection in his veins, this is common after surgeries.( my husband got an infection of some sort in his veins they got hard and hurt and were brused looking)

He realy needs to go to the clinic and have it checked out. it could be serious, clots are bad, infection is bad too.

is he on blood thinners? if so his levels might be to high and his blood to thin. this also can be deadly. (this happened to my husband after surgery, his arms got all purple and swollen, he was on crutches and that was the cause of the brusing in the arms)

He might have an infection. The nurse might have nicked a tendon or muscle with her "jabbing". Get it checked out.

Peace

Not after many days. I think I would be on the phone to the lab that did the IV and ablation.

Sounds like an infiltrated IV but you would see that right away. Most bruising you would see right away.

If it hurts or is warm and red take him to the doctor or ER
He could have a blood clot or other unknown side effect from the exam

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That nurse sounds awful! You both should have complained about her. He likely has an infection. It should be checked out immediately or it could lead to blood poisoning.

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