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Bundles Emphasized as Part of a Multidisciplinary Team to Address CLABSIs, VAP and Sepsis

Multidisciplinary teamwork is especially critical as hospitals are increasingly following evidence-based practices and care improvement campaigns. ...More
December 7, 2011
Posted in Articles, Policies and Practice
PICC Team, Prevention Bundle Helped Decrease CLABSIs in the NICU

Investigators at McGill University Health Center in Montreal, Canada report that implementation of a dedicated inter-professional peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) team and a prevention bundle was successful in decreasing rates of CLABSI in the neonatal ...More
August 1, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Bundle Reduced CLABSIs, Achieved Significant Cost Savings

Bundles have been developed to facilitate the application of infection control guidelines. Investigators from Hospital Universitario Austral in Pilar, Argentina report that because the rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in their institution ...More
July 12, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Checklist Cuts Lethal Ventilator-Associated Lung Infections

Cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) — the most lethal and among the most common of all hospital-associated infections — dropped by more than 70 percent in Michigan hospitals where medical staff used a simple checklist designed by Johns Hopkins researchers. Such ...More
February 17, 2011
Posted in News
Trauma Surgeon Develops Multidisciplinary Protocol to Eliminate VAP

Critically ill patients on a breathing tube are at risk not only from their injuries or diseases, but also from infections they can contract in the hospital. One of the most common infections is pneumonia from breathing tubes. A study of a new multidisciplinary protocol ...More
October 6, 2010
Posted in News
Hospital System Reduces Sepsis Mortality by 33 Percent in Three Years

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), the nation's eighth largest health system, announces that its severe sepsis prevention initiative has saved an additional 991 lives and reduced severe sepsis inpatient mortality rate by 33 percent at the end of three years. "A core tenant of ...More
September 9, 2010
Posted in News
UNC Hospitals Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections by 85 Percent

The rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections at the University of North Carolina Hospitals has been reduced by 85 percent over the last 10 years, a new study by UNC researchers finds. This in turn resulted in the prevention of an estimated 887 infections and ...More
September 2, 2010
Posted in News
Daily Oral Care with Chlorhexidine Urged for Ventilated Patients

Institute for Healthcare Improvement adds oral care practice to its ventilator bundle. ...More
July 26, 2010
Posted in News
The Bundle and Beyond

At the Infusion Nursing Society (INS) meeting in May 2009 a panel discussion was held to address methods of reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). This article presents results experienced by clinicians in their continuing efforts to reduce ...More
May 3, 2010
Posted in Articles
New Study Confirms Care Bundles Reduce Hospital Mortality

Elizabeth Robb, director of nursing and a visiting professor at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, and her colleagues, sought to better understand how to reduce hospital inpatient mortality and thereby increase public confidence in the quality of patient care in an ...More
April 7, 2010
Posted in News

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