Friday 03 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7274
Date Request Received: 03/07/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 24/07/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: extravasation injuries
Request Category: Researcher
| Question Number 1: Yearly incidence of extravasation injury in your trust | |
| Answer To Question 1: There were 19 incidents from 01/04/2022-31/03/2023 | |
| Question Number 2: The roles and numbers of staff involved in extravasation management per case in your trust. | |
| Answer To Question 2: We are unable to pull this data as this would require reviewing individual patient notes which would take in excess of 18 hours. | |
| Question Number 3: Whether your trust has an extravasation treatment algorithm/protocol and what it entails? | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see attached document. To accompany this answer to question 3 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 7274 SoP CT MRI Extravasation management.pdf | |
| Question Number 4: Whether your trust has compulsory DATIX reporting of extravasation injuries? | |
| Answer To Question 4: Yes each extravasation incident requires reporting via DATIX. | |
| Question Number 5: If your trust has compulsory DATIX reporting of extravasation injuries, how many incidents have been reported for the last 5 years (1st January 2018 to 1st January 2023)? | |
| Answer To Question 5: 2018 - 21 incidents 2019 - 14 incidents 2020 - 36 incidents 2021 - 28 incidents 2022 - 23 incidents | |
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