Resources

Your Infusion Library
Good references are necessary for nurses in all clinical settings. No one can remember every detail necessary for safe and effective patient care. For infusion therapy and vascular access, there are several published resources to meet your needs. We have complied the following list of books, journals, standards and guidelines documents. Each title is hyperlinked to the publisher’s website.  Click Here to download this valuable resource.


Free Documents

SHEA/IDSA Recommendations – Strategies to Prevent Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Making the Business Care for Infusion Teams- The Purpose, People, and Process

Infusion Teams in Acute Care Hospitals – Call for a Business Approach

Small-Volume Parenteral Solutions Shortages – Suggestions for Management and Conservation

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Lynn's Published Articles
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Vascular Access Devices

• Short Peripheral Intravenous Catheters and Infection, 2011 
  • Evidence Table from Literature Review – Details of Reported Outcomes
• Needlestick Injuries, Short Peripheral Catheters, and Healthcare Worker Risks, 2012
• On the Road to Successful I.V. Starts, 2005
• Hub Disinfection, 2001
• A Retrospective Look at Tip Location and Complications of PICCs 1993
• An Overview of Vascular Access Devices Inserted Via Anatecubital 1990

 
Needleless Connectors

• Needleless Connectors for IV Catheters, 2012
• Needleless Connectors: Improving Practice, Reducing Risks, 2011
• Needleless Connectors: A Primer on Terminology, 2010
• Stopcocks for Infusion Therapy - Evidence and Experience

Flushing and Locking

• Misuse of prefilled flush syringes Implications for medication errors and contamination, 2008
• Flushing VAD-Risk of Infection Transmission, 2007
• Heparin Locking for CVC, 2006
• Technology of Flushing Vascular Access Devices, 2006

 
Complications

• Infiltration and Extravasation Update on Prevention and Management, 2009
• Infiltration and Extravasation Preventing a Complication of IV Catheterization, 2007
• Emergency: Infiltration and Extravasation - Preventing a complication of IV catheterization, 2007
• Reopen the Pipeline, 2005
• Skin Flora and Infection, 2003
• I.V. Infiltration: Not Just a Peripheral Problem, 2002
• Major Thrombotic and Nonthrombotic Complications, 1998

 
Education

• Development of an Infusion Alliance, 2010
• Developing an Interactive Intravenous Education Training Program, 1999

Other Infusion Related Devices

• Polyhexamethylene Biguanide Dressing - Another Promising Tool to Reduce Catheter-related Bloodstream Infection, 2010
• Intermittent Intravenous Administration Sets: Survey of Current Practices, 2007

 
Miscellaneous

• Vancomycin New Perspectives on an Old Drug, 2003

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