Webinar: Active to passive Vascular Access hub disinfection: Changing practice in a critical care setting? by MA Healthcare Virtual

About This Webinar

This webinar aims to provide valuable insights into the impact of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections (CRBSI) in critical care settings. Dan will share his experience as a Critical Care Practitioner, focusing on the surveillance and audit of vascular access practices and their outcomes to enhance patient safety. He will explore evidence-based practices and interventions designed to reduce CRBSI, including a project to introduce passive disinfection (CurosTM Disinfecting Caps) targeted at minimising the intraluminal route of infection. Additionally, Dan will discuss the challenges of implementing these changes, ensuring compliance with the new protocol and the importance of ongoing audit.

Key Takeaways:
• Understanding the significance of CRBSI in critical care and its implications for patient outcomes.
• Insights into the practical experience and the value of undertaking vascular access surveillance and audits.
• Overview of evidence-based strategies for reducing CRBSI through passive disinfection.
• Discussion on the implementation process and maintaining compliance with new protocols

Presenters

Sponsored by Solventum

Andrew Barton

Consultant Nurse IV therapy and Vascular Access and NIVAS chair.

Andrew is a Consultant Nurse for IV therapy and Vascular Access and leads a team of infusion nurses, vascular access nurses and home IV therapy nurses who are all part of an infusion and vascular access service unit. Andrew is a non-medical prescriber and regularly inserts implanted PORTS, Tunneled catheters and PICCs using up to date technology and techniques.
Nationally Andrew is the Chair of the National Infusion & Vascular Access Society (NIVAS) an organization that aims to represent IV therapy and vascular access practice within the UK to ensure that national policy and guidelines align with best practice and are evidence based. Andrew is also a member of the national electronic medicines guide steering group (MEDUSA) and is recognized as a medical technology principal expert for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) a clinical expert advisor for The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and most recently a global committee member for WoCoVA.

Andrew has spoken at conferences and symposiums in 42 cities in 33 countries about vascular access and IV therapy with a special interest in innovation and technology. Andrew is widely published in journals having undertaken numerous research projects and is also a supplement editor for the British Journal of Nursing (BJN) IV supplement.

Dan Gill RN BSc (Hons) MSc aFICM

Advanced Critical Care Practitioner Lecturer in Advanced Clinical Practice and Adult Nursing

Dan graduated as nurse in 2009 and qualified as an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner in 2018. Dan joined the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in 2023 and has held roles in nursing management, service development and practice education, including teaching on an Advanced Clinical Practice Masters programme. Focusing on vascular access in the critically ill patient Dan has worked across his organisation addressing all aspects of vascular access including product procurement and service development. More recently Dan has led a quality improvement project addressing central catheter associated blood stream infections and has presented this work at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art Conference.

Samantha Gallagher

Vladimir Jaksic

Andrew Barton