Avoid Issues With Treatments for Extravasations

July 2024

You can help reduce patient harm from “extravasation” of certain IV meds.

IV meds can sometimes leak into the tissue around an IV catheter. In most cases, this is called infiltration.

But it’s an extravasation if the med leaking out can cause blistering or tissue death. These meds are called vesicants.

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