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This conference focuses on improving practice and patient safety to reduce Extravasation Injury, ensuring front line clinicians are aware of the risk of extravasation and how to recognise, treat and escalate extravasation injuries when they do occur.
Extravasation can cause blistering, tissue necrosis and loss of parts of the limb or even death.
Andrew Barton, Chair, NIVAS & Nurse Consultant in Vascular Access and IV Therapy, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, May 2023
Extravasation is not just a chemotherapy complication. Infiltration is the leaking of a fluid or medication into extravascular tissue from an intravenous device. Infiltration of high fluid volumes can cause nerve compression and compartment syndrome. Extravasation injury results when the solution is a vesicant which leaks into the extravascular space, where the medication or fluid itself causes damage to the tissues. The damage can increase the longer the vesicant is within the tissues.
Andrew Barton, Chair, NIVAS & Nurse Consultant in Vascular Access and IV Therapy, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, May 2023
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to reduce Extravasation Injury
Learn from outstanding practice in recognizing, treating and escalating extravasation injury
Reflect on national developments and learning
Ensure vesicants are administered in the safest way
Develop your skills in training frontline staff to recognize evolving injuries
Understand how you can implement preventative measures
Identify key strategies for improvement
Educate patients to raise alarm and improve consent procedures
Develop protocols to support practice
Understand the role and competencies of the NHS trust lead for extravasation
Ensure effective treatment, and early intervention in severe wounds
Learn from case studies in cancer, maternity, radiology and paediatrics
Ensure you are up to date with the latest legal cases
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
