Prevention of central venous catheter-related blood stream infection

Prevention of catheter-related blood stream infection: back to basics?

BACKGROUND Central venous catheter (CVC)-related infections are a substantial problem in the intensive care unit (ICU). Our infection control team initiated the routine use of antiseptic-coated (chlorhexidine-silver sulfadiazine; Chx-SS) CVCs in our adult ICUs to reduce catheter-associated (CA) and catheter-related (CR) blood stream infection (BSI) as we implemented other educational and best p...

Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection - prevention, records and auditing

Methods Exploratory-descriptive research based in auditing an implemented protocol through the use of checklists. After CVCrelated bloodstream infection prevention protocol implementation, auditing was made during the period of 26 of November of 2014 to 3 of March of 2015. Population study: 17 doctors and 36 nurses were under observation. Auditing was made in random labor time of the investigat...

Central venous catheter-related blood stream infections: incidence and an analysis of risk factors.

Six hundred and fifty-five central venous catheters (CVC) in 496 patients in the intensive care unit of Hospital Sultanah Aminah were studied to determine the incidence and risk factors for central venous catheter-related blood stream infection (CR-BSI). CR-BSI was diagnosed in 38 catheters, giving an incidence of 9.43 CR-BSI per 1000 catheter days. The mean duration in situ was 8.4 +/- 4.9 day...

Cost-effectiveness of antiseptic-impregnated central venous catheters for the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infection.

CONTEXT A recent randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis indicated that central venous catheters impregnated with an antiseptic combination of chlorhexidine and silver sulfadiazine are efficacious in reducing the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI); however, the ultimate clinical and economic consequences of their use have not been formally evaluated. OBJECTIVE ...

Prevention of central venous catheter-related infection in the intensive care unit