Practice, Standards of Care, and Strategies to Prevent Infection: A Review of Flushing Solutions and Injection Caps (Part 3 of a 3-Part Series)
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series and will review flushing solutions and injection caps in addition to practice issues, standards, guidelines, and preventive strategies developed to prevent or decrease infections of central venous catheters.Abstract
Contributor Notes
Deborah Richardson, RN, MS, CNS, is a clinical nurse specialist at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has worked with the Infusion Therapy Team (ITT) since 1980. She began working as an infusion therapy technician and later served as assistant nurse manager, instructor, and now CNS. She has published extensively, and in 2005 she won the Suzanne LaVere Herbst Award for Excellence in Vascular Access Practice from the Association for Vascular Access. She is also AVA's Director of Education.