QA Infection VAP
The Critical Care QI Team is monitoring VAPs in the ICUs. This project is in collaboration with CCVMS which is a cross Canada ICU collaborative project.
Data Collection Instructions
For all ICU patients except STB_CICU & CCU:
- If a patient
- develops a Complication of VAP while in your unit
- the VAP is newly acquired on your unit and not already reported at different unit
- there is a positive culture (no positive culture, don't code)
- then
- CLI Call Basil Evan if MICU/SICU/IICU phone:787-8794
- make the following entry in tmp:
- Project: QAInf
- Item: VAP
- date_var: date (no time) positive sputum culture was sent to micro lab.
Don't use TMP as notes
Please do not enter this TMP until you have actually confirmed a DX of VAP exists. Use the Notes field on you laptop as a reminder if needed.
Patient from other ICU with Central Line and possibly VAP
If Patient already has a VAP present on admission to your unit:
- in the admitting diagnosis field, enter VAP.
- do not enter into the Tmp Project.
- if the patient is from another ICU in the city, email the collector at that site to check if VAP was captured as a complication at that site.
Dates
- Start Date: Saturday August 22, 2009
- End Date: NONE - Continued project with the CCVSM cross Canada Collaborative--TOstryzniuk 16:53, 4 October 2010 (CDT)
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See QA Infection