2 yrs CLABSI free

babyNP., APRN · Apr 19, 2020

That is a great accomplishment. You guys have saved many baby lives ?

vintage_RN, BSN, RN · May 3, 2020

What are you guys doing to go this long? We usually manage to make it around 45 days or so before we get another one

**NICU Guy, BSN, RN** · May 3, 2020

IVs are assessed every hour. Central line tubing and continuous drip tubing is changed (sterile procedure) every 5 days. Lipid and med tubing is changed (clean change) every day. We utilized tri-fuse extensions between the central line and the tubing. All unused ports and med line needle-less caps are capped with Curos alcohol caps, which are changed whenever the line is done being accessed.

Unfortunately, a few days after my initial post, we had our first CLABSI. Over 3000 central lines without a CLABSI.

vintage_RN, BSN, RN · Jun 7, 2020

On 5/3/2020 at 9:30 AM, NICU Guy said:
IVs are assessed every hour. Central line tubing and continuous drip tubing is changed (sterile procedure) every 5 days. Lipid and med tubing is changed (clean change) every day. We utilized tri-fuse extensions between the central line and the tubing. All unused ports and med line needle-less caps are capped with Curos alcohol caps, which are changed whenever the line is done being accessed.
Unfortunately, a few days after my initial post, we had our first CLABSI. Over 3000 central lines without a CLABSI.

We do all those same things as well. I was a little harsh with saying 45 days. Our longest ever was 130 days, which we just had another one so we're back to 0. I wonder what the variance is.