Dinner Meeting
March 8, 2011

Attendants comments:

• "Actual Patient centered example"
• "Easy, smooth speaker, good topic"
• "New information "
• "Presenter was very knowledgeable "
• "VERY EYE OPENING"
• "Nancy is a very good speaker and presents the information in an interesting way"
• "Very informative program,. Nancy provided very important information "
• "Excellent speaker; highly motivating speaker"
• "Very clearly presented"
• "Providing great examples that will be remembered. This was an excellent presentation – many thanks."
• "Very thorough explanations. Relevant to current practice."
• "Excellent presentation. Very engaging. Can certainly take this info back to employer for consideration.
  Encouraged me to be a better nurse. Thanks so much."
• Speakers knowledge and her enthusiasm.

With the current focus on prevention of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection there are increasing issues of accountability when infections do occur. Groups such as The Centers for Disease Control, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Joint Commission have all contributed to the growing list of infection prevention measures necessary for acute care hospitals. The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) ruled in 2008 that infections associated with central venous catheters inserted during a patient stay in acute care were preventable. The legal implications of the CMS ruling are far reaching in that when infection does occur it is due to a mistake by the healthcare providers. The liability now associated with failure to apply preventative practices and ensure compliance by staff with those practices is rapidly growing with new cases surfacing each month. How can you protect your practice and that of your hospital? Ensuring application of best practices is challenging, but not impossible. Careful consideration of the guidelines and technologies available will provide some direction as do published hospital success initiatives. Actual cases are provided for this presentation dealing with injuries and death related to infection with Central Venous Catheters and peripheral venous catheters.

The NEO-AVA Board would like to extend our deepest gratitude to
the following vendors for making this NEO-AVA meeting possible:

3 M

Angiodynamics

Arrow International, Teleflex

Bard Access Systems, Statlock

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD)

Johnson & Johnson BIOPATCH

Carefusion

Centurion Medical Products

Clinical Technology Inc.

Cook Medical

Excelsior Medical

Genentech USA

Hospira, Inc.

ICU Medical

MedComp

Medical Action Industries

Navilyst Medical

PDI (Professional Disposables International)

Rymed Technologies

Smiths-Medical Corporation

SonoSite, Inc.