Nursing care in the prevention and conduct of antineoplastic drugs spillage

Abstract

Among the adverse effects of chemotherapy treatment, it is the extravasation of drugs, especially vesicant and irritating ones, which awakens in the professional nurse the cause of greater concern and care. The term extravasation is frequently used to describe the accidental escape or escape of the drug or vesicant solution from the lumen of the vessel into adjacent tissues, where it can cause tissue damage, including necrosis and often limiting sequelae, while the term infiltration refers to the escape of drugs or solutions, which are not capable of causing tissue damage.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/homeinternationalanais-115