Reducing and Eliminating CLABSI and CAUTI: A New Toolkit to the Rescue

The new Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) toolkit for preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs offers customizable tools and training resources to help your facility prevent dangerous infections. Its unique design gives users resources to assess current clinical and safety practices, implement a reduction plan, and overcome common cultural and technical challenges in reduction efforts. The toolkit also includes a playbook that explains how to apply AHRQ’s proven Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to prevent CLABSI and CAUTI by adjusting policies and daily procedures that take place in the ICU. The playbook is grounded in high reliability, systems thinking, and “Just Culture.” Learn more at www.ahrq.gov/icuhai.

This session from the 2022 Critical Care Congress reviewed the toolkit and best practices for implementing it.

Learning objectives:
- Explain the use of the toolkit for addressing the two-tier approach and CUSP to help reduce CAUTI and CLABSI in the ICU
- Apply processes within the toolkit to drive change in the ICU
- Integrate components of the toolkit that will overcome barriers to common clinical challenges influencing CAUTI and CLABSI rates

Panel Discussion
Kathleen M. Vollman, MSN, RN, CCNS, FCCM, Advancing Nursing
Patricia J. Posa, BSN, MSA, CCRN-K, Michigan Medicine
William S. Miles, MD, FCCM, Carolinas Medical Center