Extravasation: Surgical Management and Prevention

Extravasation is defined as the leakage of fluid from a blood vessel into surrounding area at injection site. These accidents occur during for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, carried out through peripheral central venous lines (Chemotherapy, metabolites, contrast agent radiographic examination). They can be cause skin necrosis able to progress significant functional, cosmetic, and psychological sequelae. The saline washout technique emergency surgical treatment choice extravasations certain products, allowing elimination toxicant preservation skin. In event necrosis, covering techniques such directed healing, grafts flaps allow healing. difficulty management these lesions their unpredictable evolution, require prevention, by development protocols installation monitoring catheters, continuous training nursing staff know symptoms extravasation, immediate management. aim this work present review existing literature, criteria, insist on means propose protocol