Intravenous Safety Catheters Articles & Analysis
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For example, patients whose care requires devices like ventilators or intravenous catheters, and patients who are taking long courses of certain antibiotics are most at risk. ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Klebsiella as a type of gram-negative bacteria that can cause different types of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). These include pneumonia, bloodstream infections, wound or surgical site infections, and meningitis. The agency warns Klebsiella bacteria have increasingly developed antimicrobial resistance, most recently to the ...
For example, patients whose care requires devices like ventilators or intravenous catheters, and patients who are taking long courses of certain antibiotics are most at risk. ...
Lungpacer Medical, Inc., a medical device company developing an intravenous catheter-based phrenic-nerve-pacing system, announced today that the FDA has approved the Emergency Use Authorization for the use of the Lungpacer Diaphragm Pacing Therapy System (DPTS) to assist in weaning patients determined by their healthcare provider to be at high risk of weaning failure. According to the FDA ...
Not surprising as the Vascular Access discipline can easily document its financial value by demonstrating up to millions in cost savings by reducing the number of central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) and/or complications and waste associated with peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVs). At Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, their vascular ...
Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of another online video to help educate the public about issues that may impact their health. The latest educational video discusses the threat to human health due to the presence of Klebsiella in healthcare environments. Klebsiella is a type of Gram-negative bacteria that can cause different types of healthcare ...