Strategies to prevent CLABSI, CAUTI, and VAP in hospitalized children: 2023 update

Sunday, April 30, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Location: Convention Center: 202 B

CE: Live CME: 1.50

Selected By: CC
Co-sponsored By: CC, PIDS

Chair(s)

Charlotte Woods-Hill, MD MSHP

Assistant Professor
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States
Gregory Priebe, MD (he/him/his)

Director of Research, Division of Critical Care Medicine
Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Disclosure(s):

Charlotte Woods-Hill, MD MSHP: No financial relationships to disclose

Gregory P. Priebe, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Session

Description: Despite the existence of guidelines around prevention bundles, hospitalized children continue to suffer from hospital-acquired device-associated infections, including central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), catheter-associated UTI (CAUTI), and ventilator-associated pneumonia. These hospital-acquired infections lead to increased morbidity and costs and also account for a large proportion of antibiotic use and misuse in hospitalized children. This session will provide an update on established and new prevention strategies for CLABSI, CAUTI, and VAP, focusing on recent evidence.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the latest evidence around CLABSI prevention in hospitalized children.
Describe the impact of implementation of CAUTI prevention bundles on pediatric CAUTI rates in a multicenter network.
Understand whether implementation of a proposed prevention bundle is associated with decreased rates of pediatric VAE.

Presentations:

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET

Understanding risk factors for pediatric CLABSI can inform new prevention strategies
Speaker: Charlotte Woods-Hill, MD MSHP – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Preventing pediatric CAUTI in a multicenter QI network
Speaker: Charles B. Foster, MD – Cleveland Clinic Children's
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Old and new strategies for prevention of pediatric ventilator-associated pneumonia and pediatric ventilator-associated events
Speaker: Gregory P. Priebe, MD (he/him/his) – Boston Children's Hospital