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Vascular Access/IV

Changes by necessity have opened up new opportunities

‘I hope the positive adaptations we have made over the past year, such as an increase in IV team numbers, different ways of working and refocusing attention on infection control measures, will make...

Use of dry dressings for central venous access devices (CVADs) to decrease central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI) in a trauma intensive care unit (ICU)

In March 2017, a short education session, lasting approximately 15 minutes, was given to ICU nurses. This in-service reiterated interventions that were already known by the nurses such as proper...

Biofilm and catheter-related bloodstream infections

Biofilm can explain the clinical findings most often seen with CRBSIs, yet biofilm is poorly understood within medicine. In the early 1980s, the name biofilm was given to observations of bacteria...

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