Needleless IV Connectors

• BD Q-Syte™ Luer Access Split Septum
• Interlink® Needleless IV Access Devices
  
  

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New! View interviews with William R. Jarvis, MD and Cathryn Murphy, RN, PhD, CIC--two of the authors behind the article concerning the effects of Mechanical Valve Needleless Connectors. Plus a discussion with Kari L. Love, RN, BS, MSHS in charge of Clinical Quality and Infection Prevention at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. View interviews »

Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals

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Evidence-Based Support for the BD Q-Syte Device

Kari Love, RN, BS
Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital. Council Bluffs, IA
Catheter-related bloodstream infection rates decrease to zero in the ICU after implementing a closed luer access split septum device.
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Denise Kirley, RN, BSN, CIC
St. Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta. Atlanta, GA
Impact of changing from a luer access mechanical valve to a luer access split septum device on the reduction of central line associated bloodsteam infections in a medical surgical intensive care unit.
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1 Rupp ME, Sholtz LA, Jourdan DR, et al. Outbreak of bloodstream infection temporally associated with the use of an intravascular needleless valve. CID. 2007;44:1408-1414.
2 Salgado CD, Chinnes L, Paczesny TH, Cantey JR. Increased rate of catheter-related bloodstream infection associated with use of a needleless mechanical valve device at a long-term acute care hospital. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007;28:684-688.