Neutral Notes

06.22.09Reimbursement in the Alternate Care Setting
06.15.09Special Considerations in Preventing Thrombotic Catheter Occlusions And CR-BSI in the Alternate Care Setting
03.28.08CR-BSI Prevention With A Care & Maintenance BundleRyMed Technologies, Inc. is pleased to offer this first edition of our 2008 newsletter, Neutral Notes™. The focus of this edition is RyMed’s Net Zero™ Catheter Management Program. This program is designed to provide a roadmap to dramatic reductions in your catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) and intraluminal thrombotic catheter occlusion rates.

Reports and Publications

08.04.10Needleless Connectors Article by William Jarvis, M.D.The article in the journal Infection Control Today (ICT) describes safety features that needleless connectors should possess to minimize the risk of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI), which kill an estimated 30,000 American patients annually.
08.01.10Choosing the Best Design for Intravenous Needleless Connectors to Prevent HA-BSIby William R. Jarvis, MD. Infection Control Today, Vol. 14, No. 8, August 2010.
07.28.10Needleless Connectors Letter to Infection Control PractitionersThe Food and Drug Administration is requiring nine companies to conduct a postmarket surveillance study on positive displacement needleless connectors to assess whether they may be associated with a higher rate of device-associated bloodstream infections (BSI) than other types of needleless connectors, and to assess the factors that may contribute to a possible increased risk.