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New saving lives high impact interventions

Posted by on Nov 7, 2007 | 2 Comments

The Department of Health have revised the care bundles for a number of high impact interventions such as cannulation and central venous catheters. Chlorhexidine 2% gets a number of mentions and the dwell time for peripheral cannulae has been extended to 96 hours – wow!

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2 Comments

  1. Saving Lives - retrograde step? « Infection Prevention - UK Blog
    November 12, 2007

    [...] Lives – retrograde step? Andrew Jackson has pointed out on his excellent blog (found here) that the latest ‘Saving lives’ document allows for peripheral IV device dwell time to [...]

  2. shaun cunningham
    November 28, 2008

    Hi, I am a IV Nurse Specialist. I am needing some research or further information on using ChloraPrep 2% on SCBU patients.
    Also I need further information on the infection rates from peripheral cannulae when left insitu longer than 72hrs but less than 96 hrs.
    Thanks in advance
    Shaun Cunningham