Core Clinical Transformation Work Moves Ahead at Hartford Hospital

摘要

Every year in the United States, more than 350 million peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) are sold, with failure rates averaging 53 percent, or one out of every two catheters failing prior to the completion of therapy. Since routine replacement of PIVCs has proven ineffective at decreasing complication rates, clinician leaders in hospitals across the world have been shifting to routinely removing PIVCs only when clinically indicated (when symptoms appear, or the catheter is no longer needed).