Infection prevention knowledge related to central line infections and ventilator-associated pneumonias: A survey of Finnish intensive care units, American Journal of Infection Control, 53, 6, (690 ...

In hospitalized children, there were 19 bloodstream infections over 8,682 days spent with a central line, compared with 55 such episodes over 84,705 days in the at-home group — or nearly three ...

Pediatric cancer patients whose central lines are used to treat them at home develop three times as many dangerous bloodstream infections from their devices than their hospitalized counterparts ...

UCSF’s William H. Tooley Intensive Care Nursery has gone 135 days without a single central line-associated bloodstream infection. The achievement of this milestone is an example of teamwork and ...

Background Many efforts contributed to the national decline of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in intensive care units (ICU). (See here, here, here, here, here, and here.) ...

When infection preventionists at Texas Health Dallas, an 800-bed facility, noticed an increase in hospital-wide central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in 2011, they assembled a ...

In 2011, the Center for Disease Control issued an 80-page document listing various techniques to prevent central line infections. Without standardization and simplification, such recommendations were ...

A central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) happens when microbes, like bacteria, enter the bloodstream through the central line. Hospitals have best practices in place to help ...

Washington State University and Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an electrochemical catheter hub that could someday help prevent deadly central line-associated bloodstream infections ...

Having a trained nurse or nurse team present during central line procedures or catheter insertion reduces the chance of infection for patients by 47%, according to new research from the ...

Washington State University and Mayo Clinic researchers have created an experimental catheter hub that uses electric current to continuously generate disinfectant.

A Virginia pediatric hospital eliminated central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) among its most vulnerable patients for 300 days during 2021 and 2022. Their results are being ...