The Contaminant Conundrum: Reducing Blood Culture Contamination

Author: Deva Rea, MPH, BSN, BS, RN, CIC

April 20, 2018

A new positive blood culture appears on your surveillance. And it appears to be a commensal organism. Or is it?...

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Prevention of Intraluminal Contamination of Intravascular Catheters

Author: Joan Hebden, RN, MS, CIC, FAPIC, FSHEA

September 22, 2017

Despite a 46% reduction in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in US healthcare facilities from 2008-2013, an estimated 30,000 infections...

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Chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) Resistance in Bacteria—Should I Be Concerned?

Author: Caitlin Stowe MPH, CPH, CIC,

December 1, 2016

A recent article entitled Mechanisms of increased resistance to chlorhexidine and cross-resistance to colistin following exposure of Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical...

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