Addressing the Dressing: Improving Dressing Disruption in Vascular Access (Webinar!)

Please join us for our first ever WEBINAR!

We are trying a webinar (pre-recorded) in order to accommodate clinicians who are unable to attend the meeting in person due to work or personal schedule but still want to learn more and earn CEUs:)

You can join us at the St. Joseph's Medical Arts building and enjoy a catered dinner OR you can join from the comfort of your own home or from work.

*There will be a SPECIAL announcement at this meeting, so we hope you can make it!

Dinner will be catered from either Fresh Kitchen or Taco Dirty- yum!

Join us for an Infection Prevention Webcast that will focus on Preventing Device-Associated BSIs. This presentation will include Late Breaking Data from the 2018 AVA Annual Scientific Meeting!

Michelle M. DeVries MPH, CIC, VA-BC

Senior Infection Control Officer

Methodist Hospitals, Indiana

DESCRIPTION:

Catheter Related Bloodstream Infections (CRBSI) are a significant cause of hospital morbidity and mortality.  A review of literature and Infusion Therapy Standards indicate that dressing changes due to disruption are associated with a significant risk of bloodstream infection.  A quality improvement project to decrease the number of premature dressing changes due to disruption was initiated and its results will be discussed.  

OBJECTIVES:

• Review the current guidelines and standards regarding vascular access dressing integrity
• Discuss the evidence indicating the association between dressing disruption and bloodstream infection
• Describe a successful intervention designed to improve dressing integrity on vascular access devices



SPONSORED BY:

Thank you Pete Trela!

Please register for GulfVAN IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND REMOTELY with Chellie DeVries on Oct 24, 2018 6:30 PM EDT at:  

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5264250961878377473

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