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To provide evidence-based clinical recommendations and quality indicators for preventing intravascular catheter-related infections across inpatient, outpatient, and home healthcare settings.

November 1, 2002PEDIATRICS

Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections

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To provide evidence-based clinical recommendations and quality indicators for preventing intravascular catheter-related infections across inpatient, outpatient, and home healthcare settings.
Convened an interdisciplinary consensus panel led by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and CDC HICPAC alongside 11 medical, surgical, and nursing professional societies.
Synthesized clinical evidence to update the 1996 guidelines, focusing on catheter selection, insertion practices, maintenance, and surveillance.
Recommends using maximal sterile barrier precautions during central venous catheter insertion and 2% chlorhexidine preparation for cutaneous antisepsis.
Advises against the routine, scheduled replacement of central venous catheters solely as an infection prevention strategy.
Recommends using antiseptic- or antibiotic-impregnated short-term central venous catheters if infection rates remain elevated despite adherence to basic preventive practices.

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Clinical practice guideline reports optimal prevention strategies against catheter-related bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients, highlighting sterile barriers and chlorhexidine antisepsis.

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O’Grady et al. (2002) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a72435a6c240de38cdc5808 https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.110.5.e51

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Clinical practice guideline reports optimal prevention strategies against catheter-related bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients, highlighting sterile barriers and chlorhexidine antisepsis.

Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections

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Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections

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