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Eliminate Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Swedish Medical Center (Seattle, Washington, USA) has reduced the number of ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) below the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System's tenth percentile, going without a VAP for 168 days in six intensive care units spread across three campuses.
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Rapid Response Teams: The Case for Early Intervention
This is a story the staff at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (Tallahassee, Florida, USA), a 770-bed acute care and extended care facility, share with pride. They hope it will convince other hospitals to adopt this critical, life-saving early intervention.
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Working to Reduce Complications from Ventilators and Prevent VAP in the Adult Intensive Care Units
By implementing the Ventilator Bundle in the MICU and then spreading its use to other units, the University of Rochester/Strong Health (Rochester, New York, USA) was able to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in the adult intensive care units.
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Pursuing Perfection: Report from HealthPartners’ Regions Hospital on Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infection: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection
Since 1998, Pursuing Perfection participant Regions Hospital (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) has been implementing elements of both the Ventilator and Central Line Bundles in its ICUs. As a result, their ventilator-associated pneumonia and bloodstream infection rates have dropped over the years. Pursuing Perfection, and now the 100,000 Lives Campaign, have intensified the hospital’s commitment to make further improvements and hardwire bundle interventions.
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Prevent Avoidable Codes with a Medical Emergency Team
Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle, Washington, USA) demonstrates how their Medical Emergency Team (MET) can reduce events of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency respiratory intubation.
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Reducing Adverse Events in the Intensive Care Unit
Learn how St. Joseph Hospital (Lexington, Kentucky, USA) made dramatic improvements to reduce the number of adverse events per ICU day from 8.4 to consistently below 3.0.
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Improving Outcomes in ICUs by Moving Long-Term Ventilator Patients Elsewhere
Learn how one ICU director saved a hospital system $18.5 million and weaned two-thirds of patients off ventilators by transferring them to a local nursing home.
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Rapid Response Teams: Heading Off Medical Crises at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee, USA) greatly reduces their mortality rates through the implementation of Rapid Response Teams.
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Breathing Safely in the ICU
As many as 15 percent of ICU patients on breathing machines develop ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Already debilitated by their medical conditions, patients often have little ability to fight off the added assault. As part of the 100,000 Lives Campaign, IHI has targeted VAPs and other problems that cause unnecessary hospital deaths.
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Putting Safety on the (Central) Line
If you’re a patient in an intensive care unit, you’re likely to need a catheter inserted in order to receive life-saving medicines and fluids. Unfortunately, that same catheter, or central line, can also become the source of a deadly bacterial infection. However, these infections can be prevented using the Central Line Bundle.
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