CorMedix Inc.'s DefenCath reduces catheter infections by 71%, but the limited market potential challenges long-term adoption.

Oregon hospitals have reported a modest decline in health care-associated infections (HAIs) among patients in 2023, according ...

The diagnostic criteria for pneumonia-associated bloodstream infections were as follows ... nasogastric tube, urinary catheter, central venous catheter placement and drainage tube; (7) Implementation ...

Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Shockwave Medical aims to deliver intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) to a different type of blood vessel with a first-of-its-kind catheter platform. The Javelin Peripheral IVL ...

Previously, leaders set arbitrary reduction goals, such as reducing infections from 30 to 10. But frontline workers didn’t understand why or how those numbers were picked or the value of changing.

69.4% Catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital: 72% If all hospitals performed similarly as the award winners, they could have avoided 100,891 patient safety events between ...

Analysis of four key measures in NDNQI data includes catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), central lineassociated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), patient falls that result in harm, the ...

Chlorhexidine for vascular catheter site care to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections dominated a strategy of povidone-iodine for catheter site care. The Keystone ICU initiative to prevent ...

If the infection spreads to the bloodstream or internal organs, it can be fatal. As many as one in three people with invasive C. auris infections die. Candida auris generally spreads by skin ...

15 PICC-associated bloodstream infection (BSI): a laboratory confirmed BSI where ... purulent drainage), confirmed with a positive (>15 cfu) swab or catheter tip but with negative or no blood culture ...

Correspondence to Dr Hojjat Salmasian, Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; hsalmasian{at}BWH.HARVARD.EDU The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in ...