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201. Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance: Slide Presentation Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting … Pub No. 15-0073-4-EF September 2015 Slide 2 Setting the Stage ICU patient has a urinary catheter … bag and places the bag on patient’s abdomen Nurse notices patient’s urinary catheter isn’t secured … to her leg Image on right side of slide: a urinary catheter bag. … Slide 4 Answer Three issues: Urinary catheter bag placement No securement device Urine

202. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - artery catheter (UAC), umbilical venous catheter (UVC), Broviac (a surgically placed, tunneled central … venous catheter), or "other" (all other percutaneously placed central lines). … The types of catheters in use among patients with infections can be found in Table 4 .  … Types of catheters in use among patients with infections * Catheter Type N (%) PICC … Eight infections had no catheter type noted.

203. Toolkit Overview (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - This toolkit focuses on the devices studied in the ABATE Infection trial (central lines, midline catheters … This does not preclude its use in patients with other devices (e.g., urinary catheters), but such use

204. A program to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection in acute care. | PSNet
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     December 21, 2017 - Study Classic A program to prevent catheter-associated … A Program to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Acute Care. … safety culture) and technical interventions (targeted training to reduce usage of indwelling urinary catheters … A Program to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Acute Care. … May 8, 2019 Comparing catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention programs

205. Appendix O. CAUTI Event Report Template | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Poster on Indications for Urinary Catheters Appendix E. … Poster on Urinary Catheter Risks and Indications Appendix F. … Urinary Catheter Decision-Making Algorithm Appendix G . … Urinary Catheter Project Fact Sheet Appendix H. Urinary Catheter Pocket Card Appendix I. … Catheter Care Pocket Card Appendix J. Urinary Catheter Brochure Appendix K.

206. Chapter 7. Layering Interventions and Moving Toward Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2016 - Central line/peripherally inserted venous catheter programs to minimize excessive use of central lines … Address Central Venous Catheter-Related VTE/Upper Extremity DVT Upper extremity DVT (UE DVT) events … following CVC placement is 2 to 6 percent, with an 11 to 19 percent risk of asymptomatic DVT. 22 Larger catheter … , central catheters, and restraints. … Reducing sedatives, restraints, and inappropriate Foley catheters.

207. Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. | PSNet
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     January 22, 2014 - Clinical Guideline Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related … Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. … This article discusses strategies to prevent catheter-related infections. … Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. … September 1, 2014 Eliminating Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections.

208. Part Two: Removing the Obstacles to Practice Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - Practices Advisory Committee, HICPAC, has issued recommendations for the appropriate use of indwelling catheters … To limit exposure, consider straight catheter use instead of an indwelling catheter.\ The patient … The patient with chronic or existing catheter use Some patients may present with a catheter in place … Chronic or existing catheter use. … In order to keep the patient safe, the use of urinary catheters has to be condition-driven and continually

209. Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting: Facilitator’s Guide Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance … Not attaching the catheter to the leg can lead to urethral irritation. … Well, how we handle the catheter tubing and bag can make a big difference.” … Next, the nurse empties the urinary catheter bag. … What should be done with the urinary catheter bag?

210. 52-Regional-Analgesia-Arthroplasty-Facilitator (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - To properly manage patients with indwelling catheters (either epidural or peripheral nerve catheters)

211. Appendix N. Skin Care in the Incontinent Patient | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Poster on Indications for Urinary Catheters Appendix E. … Poster on Urinary Catheter Risks and Indications Appendix F. … Urinary Catheter Decision-Making Algorithm Appendix G . … Urinary Catheter Project Fact Sheet Appendix H. Urinary Catheter Pocket Card Appendix I. … Catheter Care Pocket Card Appendix J. Urinary Catheter Brochure Appendix K.

212. Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 12, 2015 - AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Aseptic Catheter … Insertion Practices in the Emergency Department Breaking Down Barriers to Aseptic Catheter Insertion … Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated … Preventing CAUTI: What to Do When it’s Time for Plan B (November 4, 2014) Reducing Unnecessary Urinary Catheter

213. Computer-Based Training Post-Training Tests and Answer Keys: Nasal Mupirocin (doc file)
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     March 01, 2022 - Adult non-ICU patients who have medical devices (lumbar drains, midline catheters, and central lines)

214. Protocol Post-Training Test: Nasal Mupirocin (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - Adult non-ICU patients who have medical devices (lumbar drains, midline catheters, and central lines

215. Module 3: Conversations Around Device Necessity Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - removing catheters that met criteria defined in the protocol. … X, a patient on a ventilator, no longer required a urinary catheter. … Was she right to remove the catheter? What other actions might Sally have taken? … Slide 7 Say: Did you agree with the decision to remove the catheter? … X no longer met criteria for continuation of the urinary catheter.

216. Preventing CAUTI: Focus on Culturing Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2023 - Promote appropriate UC use to reduce risk of bacteriuria and symptomatic CAUTI (no catheter, no CAUTI … The absence of the catheter reduces the risk of bacteriuria and the likelihood of obtaining a urine culture … flank pain; costovertebral angle tenderness; acute hematuria; pelvic discomfort; and in those whose catheters … When To Obtain or Not Obtain a Urine Culture in a Patient With an Indwelling Urinary Catheter … Automatic or reflex culturing (mindfulness in evaluating source is key) Early pregnancy (avoid urinary catheters

217. CUSP: A Framework for Success (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2013 - getting those catheter-associated urinary tract rates down. … How are we going to harm patients with catheters?" … Why are all these catheters being put in? We've got to decrease the number of catheters." … as the catheter was put in. … on a daily basis and making sure that the catheter is truly needed.

218. Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance Facilitator Notes Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting … The nurse also notices that the patient’s urinary catheter isn’t secured to her leg. … Not attaching the catheter to the leg can lead to urethral irritation. … Well, how we handle the catheter tubing and bag can make a big difference.” … Next, the nurse empties the urinary catheter bag.

219. Computer-Based Training Post-Training Tests and Answer Keys: Nasal Iodophor (doc file)
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     March 01, 2022 - Adult non-ICU patients who have medical devices (lumbar drains, midline catheters, and central lines)

220. Protocol Post-Training Test: Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/training/cbt-answer-iodophor.pdf
     March 01, 2022 - Adult non-ICU patients who have medical devices (lumbar drains, midline catheters, and central lines