Prompt recognition is vital to preventing permanent injury. Common signs include:
is the accidental leakage of fluids—typically medications like chemotherapy or contrast agents—from a blood vessel into the surrounding tissue during an intravenous (IV) infusion. While often confused with "infiltration" (the leakage of non-irritating fluids like saline), extravasation is specifically associated with vesicants , which are drugs capable of causing severe tissue damage, necrosis, and blistering. Symptoms and Early Detection extravasation