PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Doctors at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital say they are investigating a recent spike in infections which are caused by method of treatment. Hospitals rely on what’s called a ...

On July 7, the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical New York, announced an important celebration: Its 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) became the first in New York State to go an ...

UCSF’s William H. Tooley Intensive Care Nursery has gone 135 days without a single central line-associated bloodstream infection. The achievement of this milestone is an example of teamwork and ...

Having a trained nurse or nurse team present during central line procedures or catheter insertion reduces the chance of infection for patients by 47%, according to new research from the Association ...

Following other reports that simple hygiene changes can result in saved lives and dollars, another announcement from Johns Hopkins Children's Center indicates that basic central-line hygiene prevented ...

Four common infections seen in healthcare facilities declined in 2010, according to a new report from the CDC. The data were submitted by hospitals to the National Healthcare Safety Network, CDC’s ...

Pediatric cancer patients whose central lines are used to treat them at home develop three times as many dangerous bloodstream infections from their devices than their hospitalized counterparts, ...

Here are the 50 states and the District of Columbia listed according to their progress in reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections based on data from July 2011 to June 2012. The CLABSI ...

Blood cultures should be collected from at least 2 sites before initiation of antibiotics (ideally from all lumens of a multilumen CVC). Peripheral blood culture should be collected when possible.

Less than a decade ago, CLABSIs were considered the most pervasive of all hospital-associated illnesses (HAIs). Across the United States, 500,000 patients contracted a CLABSI between 1990-2010—an ...