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The insertion of intravenous catheters has become an essential procedure in Pediatric Intensive Care Units. The object of this study is to caracterize the morbimortality associated with intravenous treatment of severely ill pediatric patients. This is a descriptive, longitudinal prospective study, carried out during 2016, at the Intensive Care Unit of Pepe Portilla Pediatric Hospital, Pinar of the Río. The sample was constituted by 182 patients admitted within the study period and requiring intravenous access. The information was obtained from patients medical history and from the unit's record of continuous morbility. It was processed with SPSS for Windows, with the hypothesis test of proportions and percentages. 51.12% of the admitted patients had an intravenous access, 31.46% by via femoral; 60.83% of patients were under one year old. Main use of intravenous was the administration of medications (100%), the 56.59% had the procedure over 10 days, the 12.08% of patients presented complications, infection was more frequent. Conclusions are that there is a high incidence of intravenous procedures, being infection for catheter the most frequent correlated complication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]