Find out how an extravasation risk rating system introduced for all IV medicines has led to increased patient safety across ...

Newborns, particularly premature infants, are highly vulnerable during intravenous infusion treatments due to their low ...

The peripheral intravenous (PIV ... 95% of PIV catheters are removed due to complications. Infiltration and extravasation are one of the most destructive complications to the neonate's fragile ...

Aims Extravasation is a rare but serious complication of IV (intravenous) therapy. It can cause pain, tendon/nerve damage, infection, and in severe cases, tissue necrosis. 1 There is a lack of data on ...

The pathophysiology involves the relatively high concentration of norepinephrine in both the recipient vein and adjacent blood vessels leading to vasoconstriction and increased vascular permeability.

The measurement of the concentration of hydrogen ions, pH, is another important consideration when evaluating a medication's risk of infiltration or extravasation. A normal pH of blood is between ...

Results 347 extravasation incident reports were included in the evaluation ... The most common location of injury was the hand (33.2%). The top three drugs involved were IV fluids (saline and dextrose ...

clare.wilkinslineone.net This survey of regional neonatal intensive care units determined a prevalence of 38 per 1000 neonates who sustained an extravasation injury that caused skin necrosis. Most ...

Introduction Umbilical venous catheter (UVC) related extravasation is an under recognised yet potentially catastrophic complication. 1 A series of near fatal UVC extravasations prompted a ...