Introducing a nursing maintenance bundle for patients with pulmonary arterial catheters.

Autor: Ben-Aderet MA; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Almario MJP; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Madhusudhan MS; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Drucker C; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Luria J; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Krishna S; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Massie L; Department of Nursing, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Bresee C; Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Chan A; Department of Nursing, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Nguyen J; Department of Nursing, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Murthy RK; Department of Medical Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California., Grein JD; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Infection control and hospital epidemiology [Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol] 2020 Jan; Vol. 41 (1), pp. 113-115. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Oct 21.
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2019.286
Abstrakt: We undertook a quality improvement project to address challenges with pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) line maintenance in a setting of low-baseline central-line infection rates. We observed a subsequent reduction in Staphylococcal PAC line infections and a trend toward a reduction in overall PAC infection rates over 1 year.
Databáze: MEDLINE