Infection Control Today - Catheter-Related Infections

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

2 weeks ago

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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

4 weeks ago

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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

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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

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ICU Medical Launches Needlefree Catheter Patency Device to Reduce Catheter Occlusions

ICU Medical, Inc. announces it is launching the Neutron™ needlefree catheter patency device with constant neutral pressure today at the Association for Vascular Access annual scientific meeting in San Jose, Calif. Neutron is the only device with FDA 510k clearance to claim ...More

October 4, 2011

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C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Part of National Project to Reduce HAIs

The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital is among 80 hospitals taking part in a national effort to eradicate catheter-associated bloodstream infections among hospitalized pediatric patients. The effort by member hospitals of the National Association of ...More

September 29, 2011

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Pediatric Hospitals Save Lives With Central Line Hygiene and Maintenance

Following some basic rules of central line hygiene and maintenance, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and 87 other pediatric hospitals have, over five years, saved hundreds of patient lives and more than $100 million by preventing nearly 3,000 central line-related bloodstream ...More

September 16, 2011

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Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Provides Prevention Strategies to Reduce CLABSI

Data submitted by Pennsylvania hospitals in 2010 pinpoints timelines for prevention strategies for reducing and/or eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), according to information published in the September 2011 Pennsylvania Patient Safety ...More

September 1, 2011

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Researchers Review New Materials, Devices to Prevent Catheter-Related Infections

Catheters are the leading source of bloodstream infections for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Comprehensive unit-based programs have proven to be effective in decreasing catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSIs). ICU rates of CR-BSI higher than 2 per ...More

August 23, 2011

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Antibiotic Cuts Catheter Infections in Dialysis Patients

Antibiotics can help ward off serious bacterial infections in kidney disease patients who use catheters for their dialysis treatments. But if antibiotics are used too often, superbugs may crop up that are resistant to the drugs. A new randomized controlled clinical trial ...More

August 19, 2011

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