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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.
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.
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
100% of delegates at our previous conference on this subject would recommend it to a colleagues