Hospital‑Onset Bacteremia Prevention Strategies

About this episode

The episode discusses strategies to prevent Hospital-Onset Bacteremia through education and technology.

In this CE Podcast Judy, Dr. Sarah Capalla and Jenny Ballard discusses the impact of the impending CMS movement towards imposing Hospital Onset Bacteremia (HOB) reporting. The conversation discusses education, leadership, and the use of medical technologies to prevent vascular access harm. The learning objectives are: • Explain what Hospital-Onset Bacteremia and Fungemia (HOB) are • List the types of vascular access catheters, both ven...

People in this episode

Host: Judy

Guests: Jenny Ballard, Dr Sarah Capalla

Topics covered

• Hospital-Onset Bacteremia
• Fungemia
• vascular access
• medical technologies
• education
• leadership

Keywords

• CMS movement
• HOB reporting
• vascular access harm

Mentioned in this episode

Products: vascular access catheters

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