New saving lives high impact interventions
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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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 [...]
shaun cunningham
November 28, 2008Hi, 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