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Central Line Cart: An Emergency Department Initiative To Improve Efficiency, M. Ahmed, Md

House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference (2016-2019)

Background

• Critically ill patients that present to the emergency room often require time sensitive resuscitative measures, which often necessitates placement of a central venous catheter.
• Efficient placement of a central venous catheter is often limited by the time it takes to gather the number of supplies needed for the task.
• It is already known that central venous catheter procedure carts and kits decrease the incidence of central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs)1 as well as reduce the incidence of procedural mistakes during central line insertion2
• However, there is a paucity of data in regards to the impact of central line …