Infection Control Today - Catheter-Related Infections

Commonly Used Catheters Double Risk of Blood Clots in ICU and Cancer Patients

Touted for safety, ease and patient convenience, peripherally inserted central catheters have become many clinicians’ go-to for IV delivery of antibiotics, nutrition, chemotherapy, and other medications. But compared to other central venous catheters (CVCs), these ...More

5 days ago

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

CRBSI Rates May Be Biased by Differences of Blood Culture Sampling and CRBSI Definition

Catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) surveillance serves as a quality improvement measure that is often used to assess performance. Cherifi, et al. (2013) reviewed the total number of microbiological samples collected in three Belgian intensive care units (ICU) in ...More

3 weeks ago

Posted in News

A Culture Change on Catheters for Children

Children in the pediatric intensive care unit often can’t tell nurses how their bodies are reacting to treatment or medicines, either because they cannot speak, are in and out of consciousness, or because everything feels so strange and scary. Instead, nurses rely on clear, ...More

February 6, 2013

Posted in News

Hospital Study Targets Catheter Management to Avoid Infections

A major international study led by University of Adelaide researchers aims to prevent death and serious illness caused by one of the most common infections contracted by patients in hospitals. The study is investigating standard practices for the insertion and management of ...More

August 3, 2012

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

Study Highlights Methodist Hospital's Success in Improving Patient Safety

An IV connector known as an intraluminal protection device (IPD) significantly outperformed two widely used negative-pressure IV connectors in research performed at Methodist Extended Care Hospital (MECH). An IV connector is a small but crucial device that helps provide ...More

July 31, 2012

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

Safe Insertion of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters: Equipment Availability Varies

Intravenous cannulation is undertaken in a high proportion of hospitalized patients. Much international attention has been given to the use of care bundles to reduce the incidence of infection in these patients. However, less attention has been given to the systems required ...More

April 26, 2012

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

CLABSIs at Hospitals Disclosed Nationwide

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is now disclosing for the first time how hospitals across the country compare when it comes to central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units. CLABSI information for each hospital is ...More

February 1, 2012

Posted in News

Engineers Developing New Ways to Combat Catheter-Associated Infections

Researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, backed by funding from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, are developing tools that promise powerful new ways to combat catheter-based and other infections without provoking bacterial ...More

January 18, 2012

Posted in News

Switching Patients from IV to Pill Form of Drugs Could Save Millions, Avoid Infections

Switching hospitalized patients able to take medication by mouth from intravenous to pill forms of the same drugs could safely save millions of dollars a year, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. In a review of computerized records for the year 2010, conducted at The Johns ...More

October 27, 2011

Posted in News

Simple Steps to Prevent Catheter-Related Infections Save Hundreds of Lives, Millions of Dollars

By following a few basic rules for handling central venous catheters, nurses and doctors at a group of children's hospitals have, in three years, prevented nearly a thousand infections and saved more than a hundred children's lives and millions of dollars, according to a ...More

October 24, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

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