Central Line Infections

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Central Line Infections When a patient receives a service in the hospital, he expects the quality of service to be adequate for his care. Unfortunately, there are many services in healthcare that need quality improvement. CLABSI is one of the most deadly infections in the U.S. Reduction of CLABSI can happen with the cooperation of healthcare staff and systems. With CLABSI on the rise, healthcare staff needs to be effective in their care for quality improvement in patient safety and patient centeredness. Central line infection can lead to many complications such as bleeding, blockage, pneumothorax, and pain from the insertion site. In 2009, CLABSI resulted in nearly $700 million in additional healthcare costs, according to Center of Disease Control (CDC) data quoted in the CMS release. Each year, approximately 2 million patients are infected by CLABSI. Many of these infections continue to occur more, especially in the intensive care unit (ICU) and other departments. From the six aims of improvement according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), central line infection affects patient safety, effectiveness, and patient centeredness. Patient safety is important because it is dealing with the patient’s health status. When a central line infection occurs, whether if it starts with an infection or leads to death, patient safety is on the line. Effectiveness affects the healthcare quality because with the science and knowledge needed to prevent CLABSI, it continues to occur more than it should. It lies in the healthcare staff’s hands to be able to prevent CLABSI from occurring and use of effective science and knowledge to maintain sterile technique when inserting a catheter. Patient centeredness is affected by central line infections because the healthcare staff is not fully giving their quality of care to the patient when inserting a catheter, maintaining
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