Specialty: Vascular Access
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Efficacy of Silver Plated Dressing Pad in Reducing Left Ventricular Assist Device Driveline Infections When Compared to Chlorhexidine Impregnated Disc
The Reduction of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections with the Use of Silver-Plated Disk Dressings in Burn Injured Patients
Authors: Michaela M Craig, BA, BSN, RN, CCRN, Sendra Starnes, MHA, BSN, RN, CNML, Tamika Lovelace, MSN, BSN, RN, CIC, James H. Holmes IV, MD FACS
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Presented: ABA 2025
Reducing Central Line – Associated Bloodstream Infections With a Multipronged Nurse-Driven Approach
Authors: Linda M. Hoke, PhD, RN, AGCNS-BC, CCNS, CCRN, WCC, Gracy C. Mathen, MSN, RN, PCCN, Ellen Beckett, BSN, BA, RN
Publication: Critical Care Nurse
Silver-plated Discs at PICC Insertion Sites in the Neonatal ICU
Authors: Gloribel Medina, MHA, MPH, BSN, RNC-NIC, Karen Fugate, MSN, RNC-NIC, CPHQ, Kimberly Atrubin, MPH, CIC, CPHQ, FAPIC
Children’s Medical Center, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA
Reduction in Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections Correlated With the Introduction of a Novel Silver-Plated Dressing for Central Venous Catheters and Maintained for 6 Years
Authors: Rachel Karlnoski PhD1, Elia Charbel Abboud MD1, Peggy Thompson BSN CIC FAPIC2, Asa Z. Oxner MD3, John T. Sinnott, MD FACP4, Jorge E. Marcet MD FACS FASCRS1
Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA
Publication: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
Non-Inferiority of a Novel Silver-Plated Dressing for Central Venous Catheters: A retrospective Cohort Evaluating Rates of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Adult Intensive Care Patients
Authors: Asa Oxner MD, Andrew Myers MD, John Sinnot MD, FACP, Jorge Marcet MD, Jillian Sajdak, Peggy Thompson BSN, CIC, Charles Myers
University of South Florida College of Medicine