Central Line Tracking
This is a legacy article only! This is now item Central Venous Catheter at 2300 (TISS Item) in Category:TISS28
Data Use
- data is used by statistician to submit to CCVSM (Critical Care Vital Signs Monitoring)-which is a cross Canada ICU collaborative and to the Critical Care Program in the Quarterly report and Annual report.
Project and Start Dates in ICU's in the Region
Hosp | Central Line_start date | Unit |
HSC | Sept 1.07 | MICU/CCU |
Sept 1.07 | SICU | |
Sept 1.07 | IICU | |
STB | Jan 1.06 | MICU/SICU |
Not included | CCU | |
Not included | CICU | |
GRA | Feb 1.08 | MICU |
VIC | Feb 25.08 | MICU |
OAK | Feb 19.08 | MICU |
CON | Feb 4.08 | MICU |
TOstryzniuk 20:17, 22 January 2009 (CST)
Form Stop Date
- Stopped form May 6.13.Trish Ostryzniuk 18:20, 2013 May 9 (EDT). No longer be using central line and ETT forms faxed in by CRN's.Trish Ostryzniuk 18:19, 2013 May 9 (EDT)
Project Stop Date
No stop date for project. Unplanned extubation and central line counts will be gathered from TISS28 starting Jan 1.13.
How do we count number of central lines?
a.) Count the number of patients with a Central Line in place at 2300 hrs. The Statistician uses Central Venous Catheter at 2300 (TISS Item)? --Trish Ostryzniuk 19:26, 2013 May 14 (EDT)
b.) A patient with two or more Central Lines in place at the time of the count is counted as one patient with a Central Line on that day.
c.) Count the total number of patients who are in the ICU each day at the time of the line counts. Statistician using Registry Data to obtain admit date and time closet to 2300 hrs?--Trish Ostryzniuk 19:26, 2013 May 14 (EDT)
Arrives with Central Line
- If a patient is admitted to the ICU with a central line in place, is it counted in the central line days
- Yes
Current process in place to obtain information
- information is collected by the CRN/charge nurse at each of the ICU's in the city. Data must be collected at the same time each day.
- counts the number of patients with central lines per day.
- form is faxed to our office once per week. Original kept in CRN office at site. Data Processor has a contact person at each site she must call if forms are not received by Wednesday each week.
- Data Processor manually enters counts into an ACCESS database on our share point on "X":.
- NAME: CentralLineswithETtube.mdb
- LOCATION: X:\CCMDB_Special_Projects\Central_Line_Infections_ETube\DATA_ENTRY_LineCounts_ETube\CentralLineswithETtube.mdb
LEGACY TISS76 items that refer to central line
No all central line are collected on TISS only these:
- T12 - TISS76-Cardiovascular
- T43 - TISS76-Gastrointestinal
- T53, T54, T55 - TISS76-Genitourinary
- T71 - TISS76-Meds IVs