New saving lives high impact interventions

November 7, 2007

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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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Written by Andrew Jackson · Filed Under All, IV Guidelines 

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2 Responses to “New saving lives high impact interventions”

  1. Saving Lives - retrograde step? « Infection Prevention - UK Blog on November 12th, 2007 10:12 pm

    [...] 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 on November 28th, 2008 9:21 am

    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

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