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Alternative Title:
Reducing bloodstream infections
Corporate Authors:
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services.
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services. Less -
Description:
"A central line is a tube that a doctor usually places in a large vein of a patient's neck or chest to give important medical treatment. When not put in correctly or kept clean, central lines can become a freeway for germs to enter the body and cause serious bloodstream infections. These infections can be deadly. Of patients who get a bloodstream infection from having a central line, up to 1 in 4 die. Bloodstream infections in patients with central lines are largely preventable when healthcare providers use CDC-recommended infection control steps. Medical professionals have reduced these infections in hospital intensive care unit (ICU) patients by 58% since 2001. Even so, many still occur in ICUs, in other parts of hospitals, and in outpatient care locations. In 2008, about 37,000 bloodstream infections occurred in hemodialysis outpatients with central lines." -p. 1
Content Notes:
Fact sheet released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (OSELS) in association with: Vital signs: central line--associated blood stream infections --- United States, 2001, 2008, and 2009, published: MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 60, no. 8, p. 243-8.

"CS220503B."

"March 2011."

"Publication date: 03/01/201."

Title from title screen (viewed March 7, 2011).

Introduction -- Latest findings -- Who's at risk? -- U.S. state information -- What can be done -- Social media

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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Subject:
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Adverse Effects
Bacterial Infections
Catheter-Related Infections
Catheterization, Central Venous
Cross Infection
Infection Control
Prevention & Control
Bacterial Infections/Prevention & Control
Catheter-Related Infections/Prevention & Control
Catheterization, Central Venous/Adverse Effects
Cross Infection/Prevention & Control
Infection Control/Popular Works

Series:
Vital signs ; 2011 March ; MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 60, no.8, p. 243-8
Vital signs ; 2011 March ; MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 60, no.8, p. 243-8 Less -
Document Type:
Pamphlet (or booklet)
Genre:
Popular Works ; Fact Sheet
Popular Works ; Fact Sheet Less -
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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