Johns Hopkins Medicine developed a checklist for clinicians to follow to prevent central line-associated infections. This checklist also stresses the need to document any deviations from the checklist ...
The management of many medical and surgical conditions often involves long-term infusion of intravenous fluids, broad-spectrum antibiotics, chemotherapeutic agents for cancer, critical care therapies, ...
The Blessing Hospital Intensive Care Unit staff is celebrating 16 consecutive months with no central line-associated bloodstream infections. A central line is a tube placed in a patient's large vein ...
A targeted educational intervention using a simulated central line care model improved competence in central line care and resulted in decreased CLABSI rates for oncology inpatients. Purpose: Patients ...