Compliance is Key to Hospital Infection Prevention Sharp HealthCare System 343 Beds In July 2009, Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center evaluated Curos Port Protectors as an addition to its central line bundle protocol for line maintenance to prevent bloodstream infections in their 35-bed MICU/SICU as part of their hospital infection control. Prior to the trial, [...]

Nationally-acclaimed researcher Dr. Cynthia C. Chernecky PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN warned in a speech at the 11th National Conference on Cancer Nursing Research that silver treated IV connectors could actually cause the potentially deadly bloodstream infections that they were supposed to prevent.  After testing antimicrobial effectiveness of three different needleless IV port connector devices with [...]

According to recent research published in the journal Clinical Nursing Research, “Fifty percent of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) caused by organism migration through the fluid pathway (intraluminal) via a connector can be colonized within 24 hr. With a mean hospital stay of 4.8 days, intraluminal contamination is a primary source of CR-BSI.” The research evaluated [...]