Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections

Learn more about the impact of false-positive central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) on patients and hospitals, and the connection between blood culture contamination and CLABSIs.

This recorded webinar provides an overview of possible adverse events associated with urinary and central venous catheters, facility guidelines on catheter usage and common fallacies around catheter usage.

Hospital-acquired indwelling urinary catheter and central line infections hurt thousands of patients every year and cost health care organizations millions of dollars. This presentation will provide insight for conducting a self-assessment regarding organizational practice of evidence-based CAUTI/CLABSI Prevention Bundles to identify opportunities for improvement.

This tool, prepared by Alliant Health Solutions, a Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), is used to assess the difference between central line associated blood stream infection (CLABSI) prevention actual practice and expected performance. It is important to assess practice through observation and audit rather than relying on if a policy is in place, as practice can vary from policy.

View presentations from the 2022 annual National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) live training on how to identify, report, and analyze VAE, PedVAE, CAUTI, CLABSI, Secondary Bloodstream Infection (BSI) and Site-Specific Infections, SSI, MRSA Bacteremia and C. difficile LabID events, as well as presentations on validation of healthcare-associated infection data, and reporting and analysis of antibiotic use and resistance data.

Hospitals can use this tracer tool to survey and evaluate their processes for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI).

A checklist for hospitals to review current interventions, or initiate new ones, for CLABSI) prevention in your facility.

A tool from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help your unit implement evidence-based practices and eliminate central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI).

A care team checklist to decrease patient harm from catheter-related blood stream infections.

A central line insertion resource from the Joint Commission's "Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections: Useful Tools, An International Perspective" report.

This Spanish version of a recorded webinar provides an overview of possible adverse events associated with urinary and central venous catheters, facility guidelines on catheter usage and common fallacies around catheter usage.

This webinar will educate viewers on identifying CLABSI events using National Healthcare Safety Network definitions, as well as when and what to report for CLABSI to NHSN.