Summary
On the 21 July 2022 NHS Resolution’s Safety and Learning team, in partnership with the National Infusion and Vascular Access Society, hosted a virtual forum on extravasation injury claims. The intention of this event was to raise awareness of these injuries and help spread learning and process review across health providers.
Content
Extravasation injuries occur when some intravenous drugs leak outside the vein into the surrounding tissue causing trauma. From 1 April 2010 until the 1 December 2021, NHS Resolution received 467 claims relating to extravasation injuries.
This virtual forum featured a panel discussion with the following speakers:
- Andrew Barton, Chair of NIVAS and IV nurse consutlant (NIVAS and Frimley NHS Trust)
- Alison Macefield, Deputy Head of Midwifery (Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust)
- Jorge Leon-Villapalos, Consultant in Plastic Surgery and Burns (Chelsea & Westminster)
- Lisa-Marie Musgrave, Senior Claims Manager (NHS Resolution)
- Samantha Thomas, Associate Safety and Learning Lead London (NHS Resolution)
Presentations from this session can be found below:
Extravasation: Learning from claims (NHS Resolution)
NHS Resolution extravasation presentation 2022 PDF.pdf
Extravasation injuries: Recognition and clinical Management (Jorge Leon-Villapalos)
EXTRAVASATION INJURIES JLV PDF.pdf
Complications of IV therapy: Extravasation (Andrew Barton)
NIVAS extravasation presentation 2022 Andrew Barton PDF.pdf
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