title: Managing cytotoxic chemotherapy extravasation: use of saline washout.
abstract: Florence Nightingale Foundation scholar Karen Harrold received funding to support her PhD exploring the patient experience of saline washout as a management strategy for chemotherapy extravasation. She discusses the focus of her thesis, the completion of phase one and looks ahead to phase two.
authors.affiliation: Chemotherapy & IV Access Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Middlesex.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harrold
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005119:Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D012965:Sodium Chloride