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Vascular Access
The Infection Control Today® vascular access page offers the latest insights from vascular access teams in the field, and covers the latest updates on the methods to keep central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and other infections down to a minimum.
CLABSI Prevention at Home Starts With Sharing Patient Information
May 19, 2022
Patients with home infusion therapy have improved outcomes when home health care agencies and acute care facilities communicate relevant information on their shared patients.
Home Bathroom Could be LVAD Driveline Infection Source
May 16, 2022
New study describes the case report and gives guidelines on how to prevent infection in the home.
Weekly Rounds: Preventing HAIs with Updated Sterilization and Quality Control Processing
March 18, 2022
Summary: Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending March 18.
How to Keep Sharps Safety a Cut Above
November 12, 2021
No health care worker is immune from the dangers of handling sharps. Physicians hold a rate just under that of nurses, mostly related to use of scalpels, but are less likely to report these injuries.
Q&A: How COVID-19 Changed Vascular Access Methods
February 24, 2021
Kelly Cawcutt, MD, MS, FACP, FIDSA: “In a perfect world, vascular access teams and infection prevention teams really should be working very tightly together to optimize the practice of putting our vascular access in place.”
Year Zero: How COVID-19 Changed Everything
December 23, 2020
Though tough months lie ahead for infection preventionists and other healthcare professionals, hope remains that at some point in 2021 things will begin to settle down. In the end, it comes down to a simple formula: We win, COVID-19 loses.
Q&A: Teaching Vascular Access Nursing on the Run
October 26, 2020
Maya Gossman, RN: “Our infection preventionist has trained me in the past with the PPE use and the infection prevention measures. And so, I’m passing that on—the knowledge that she’s given me—I’m passing that on at this point to my vascular nurse trainees, my orientees.”
How This Vascular Access Nurse Relies on an Infection Preventionist
September 17, 2020
Although both vascular access and infection prevention have their own focus, our commonality is in ensuring patients get the care they need while minimizing their chances of nosocomial infections.
Q&A: Infection Preventionists, Vascular Access Nurses Line Up
August 10, 2020
Maya Gossman, RN: “I tell people, I put tubes in veins, that’s what I do for a living. Anytime you break the skin and you place a tube into the bloodstream, that’s a huge risk for infection.”
Q&A: IPs, Vascular Access Teams Work Together
July 30, 2020
Nancy Moureau: “Our priority is to minimize infections or potentially even to eliminate them. We want complications to be history. In order to achieve those goals, I see the vascular access specialist or the vascular access teams as being in a partnership with the infection preventionist.”