CDC Updates Bloodstream Infection Prevention Guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee have released updated guidelines that outline steps to eliminate bloodstream infections in patients with intravenous catheters, according to a news release by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control.

The newly updated “Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections” are an update to previous CDC guidelines published in 2002. The new edition was developed by a working group led by the Society of Critical Care Medicine, in collaboration with other major stakeholder including the Infectious Diseases Society of America, APIC, the CDC and HICPAC.

The guidelines will be published in their entirety in a special supplement to the American Journal of Infection Control, along with a video roundtable that features healthcare professionals’ insights on the impact of this new guideline.

Read the APIC news release about CDC’s Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections.

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