Consider using technology to help reduce infections
Briefings on Infection Control, July 1, 2008
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Beginning October 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will reduce payment for several preventable events, including catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CA-UTI), and facilities looking for ways to reduce the number of UTIs should consider using an age-old metal to assist them in their efforts.
A new study shows that silver-coated catheters have the potential to reduce the number of CA-UTIs. In fact, St. Vincent’s Rehabilitation Hospital in Sherwood, AR, where the study was conducted, completely eliminated UTIs in the six months following the switch to silver-coated catheters. In the four months before silver-coated catheters were added, study authors Jackie Kassler, RN, and Josh Barnett, RN, CRRN, had detected 10 CA-UTIs.
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