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February 2013 Vol 97 No 2 • AORN Connections | C3 © AORN, Inc, 2013 AORN Connections is the news section of the AORN Journal, providing expert perspectives and in-depth coverage on perioperative news topics. Each month AORN Connections includes news and feature stories related to health care policy, management, technology, implementation of safe practices, and other perioperative practice issues. PUBLICATIONS DEPARTMENT DESIGN & PRODUCTION Leslie Knudson Kurt Jones Managing Editor Senior Graphic Designer CONTACT US: [email protected] AORN Connections is published monthly as part of the AORN Journal by AORN, the Associa- tion of Perioperative Registered Nurses. Copyright © 2012 AORN, Inc. All rights reserved. Views expressed in the editorial pages or statements or photographs in advertisements do not imply AORN endorsement. See the “Information for Readers” page earlier in this issue for reprint and reuse information. Reproduction by any means without written permission is prohibited. AORN Connections is a benefit of membership in AORN. AORN, Inc. 2170 S. Parker Road, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80231-5711 (303) 755-6304; (800) 755-2676; www.aorn.org INFECTION CONTROL Research shows disinfection cap reduces bloodstream infections A new study published in the January 2013 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control states that use of an alcohol-impregnated disinfection cap on IV catheters and tubing reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections for patients in the NorthShore University HealthSystem, headquartered in Evanston, Ill. The use of disinfection caps has been adopted as a standard practice at all four hospitals within the NorthShore system for central IV catheters. The disinfection cap was found to be a cost-effective solution to replace the standard method for manually disinfecting connector hubs, which involves scrubbing IV connectors with alcohol. Read more at: hp://www. ajicjournal.org/article/S0196- 6553(12)01023-1/fulltext. PEDIATRICS New C. diff pediatric guidelines released The American Academy of Pediatrics released a new policy statement outlining that clinicians should search for other causes of disease when infants test positive for Clostridium difficile (C. diff). According to the statement published in the January issue of Pediatrics, children under the age of 12 have high rates of C. diff. colonization (i.e., 37 percent before one month of age, 30 percent between one and six months of age, and 14 percent from six to 12 months of age). The recommendations suggest that a positive C. diff test in children one to two years of age indicates possible infection and NEWS IN BRIEF Continued on C4 2011 ASHPE AWARD WINNER 2012-2013 NEWS ADVISORY GROUP Jennifer Bragdon, MSN, MTS, RN, CPN, CNOR, Periop Educator Cambridge Health Alliance Terry Chang, MD, JD, Associate General Counsel and Director Legal & Medical Affairs, AdvaMed Kathleen Corrigan, RN, Staff Nurse Children’s Hospital Boston Mark Duro, CRCST, FCS, Manager Central Sterile Processing Department, New England Baptist Hospital Stella Harrington, BSN, RN, CNOR, Level II Nurse Children’s Hospital Boston Coleen Heeter, MBA, BSN, RN, Vice President of Operations Surgical Care Affiliates Marcie Janetti, BSN, RN, CNOR, Staff Nurse, Clinical Scholar Jersey Shore University Medical Center Donna W. Laney, BSN, RN-BC, Board Certified Nurse Informatics, Quality Analyst McKesson Julie Moyle, MSN, RN, Consultant 1x1 Consulting Pauline Robitaille, MSN, RN, CNOR, Nursing Director Operating Room, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Shelly Satterthwait, MHSA, RN, CNOR, Director of Surgical Services Bozeman Deaconess Hospital Pegi Wasserman, BSN, RN, ACS NSQIP Perioperative Clinical Reviewer Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Jane Wick, BSN, RN, Surgical Services Nurse Shriners Hospital for Children Portland
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February 2013 Vol 97 No 2 • AORN Connections | C3© AORN, Inc, 2013
AORN Connections is the news section of the AORN Journal, providing expert perspectives and in-depth coverage on perioperative news topics. Each month AORN Connections includes news and feature stories related to health care policy, management, technology, implementation of safe practices, and other perioperative practice issues.
Publications DePartment Design & ProDuctionLeslie Knudson Kurt Jones Managing Editor Senior Graphic Designer
contact us: [email protected]
AORN Connections is published monthly as part of the AORN Journal by AORN, the Associa-tion of Perioperative Registered Nurses. Copyright © 2012 AORN, Inc. All rights reserved.
Views expressed in the editorial pages or statements or photographs in advertisements do not imply AORN endorsement. See the “Information for Readers” page earlier in this issue for reprint and reuse information. Reproduction by any means without written permission is prohibited. AORN Connections is a benefit of membership in AORN.
AORN, Inc. 2170 S. Parker Road, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80231-5711 (303) 755-6304; (800) 755-2676; www.aorn.org
INFECTION CONTROL
Research shows disinfection cap reduces bloodstream infectionsA new study published in
the January 2013 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control states that use of an alcohol-impregnated disinfection cap on IV catheters and tubing reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections for patients in the NorthShore University HealthSystem, headquartered in Evanston, Ill. The use of disinfection caps has been adopted as a standard practice at all four hospitals
within the NorthShore system for central IV catheters. The disinfection cap was found to be a cost-effective solution to replace the standard method for manually disinfecting connector hubs, which involves scrubbing IV connectors with alcohol.
Read more at: http://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(12)01023-1/fulltext.
PEDIATRICS
New C. diff pediatric guidelines released
The American Academy of
Pediatrics released a new policy statement outlining that clinicians should search for other causes of disease when infants test positive for Clostridium difficile (C. diff). According to the statement published in the January issue of Pediatrics, children under the age of 12 have high rates of C. diff. colonization (i.e., 37 percent before one month of age, 30 percent between one and six months of age, and 14 percent from six to 12 months of age).
The recommendations suggest that a positive C. diff test in children one to two years of age indicates possible infection and
News iN Brief Continued on C4
2011 ASHPE AWARD WINNER
2012-2013 news aDvisory grouPJennifer Bragdon, MSN, MTS, RN, CPN, CNOR, Periop Educator Cambridge Health Alliance
Terry Chang, MD, JD, Associate General Counsel and Director Legal & Medical Affairs, AdvaMed
Kathleen Corrigan, RN, Staff Nurse Children’s Hospital Boston
Mark Duro, CRCST, FCS, Manager Central Sterile Processing Department, New England Baptist Hospital
stella Harrington, BSN, RN, CNOR, Level II Nurse Children’s Hospital Boston
Coleen Heeter, MBA, BSN, RN, Vice President of Operations Surgical Care Affiliates
Marcie Janetti, BSN, RN, CNOR, Staff Nurse, Clinical Scholar Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Donna w. Laney, BSN, RN-BC, Board Certified Nurse Informatics, Quality Analyst McKesson
Julie Moyle, MSN, RN, Consultant 1x1 Consulting
Pauline robitaille, MSN, RN, CNOR, Nursing Director Operating Room, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
shelly satterthwait, MHSA, RN, CNOR, Director of Surgical Services Bozeman Deaconess Hospital
Pegi wasserman, BSN, RN, ACS NSQIP Perioperative Clinical ReviewerAdvocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Jane wick, BSN, RN, Surgical Services Nurse Shriners Hospital for Children Portland
in children ages three years and older indicates probable infection. Authors of the statement recommend avoiding routine testing in children younger than one year because of the high carriage rates and to perform C. diff testing only when clinical and age conditions are met. The updated recommendations were released because of the increasing rate of C. diff infections among hospitalized children and to reflect specific management guidelines for infected children.
Read more at: http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/GeneralInfectiousDisease/36655.
INFECTION CONTROL
Johns Hopkins to use vapor-dispersing devices for decontamination
According to a study published in the January issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers at The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH), Baltimore, used robot-like devices to disperse bleaching hydrogen peroxide in hospital rooms after routine cleaning as part of a two-and-a-half-year analysis involving 6,350 patient admissions. Study results showed that the enhanced cleaning technique reduced the number of patients who became contaminated with common drug-resistant organisms by 64
percent. The use of hydrogen peroxide vapor also reduced a patient’s chance of becoming colonized by vancomycin-resistant enterococci by 80 percent. The robot-like devices, manufactured by Bioquell, Inc., Horsham, Pa., will be used by JHH to decontaminate rooms housing high-risk patients infected with multiple drug-resistant organisms.
Read more at: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/597698/?sc=mwhp.
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