Comparative Analysis Between the Use of the CVC Bundles and the Standard Interventions

Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
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Literature review on the effect of using CVC bundles compared to standard interventions on the CLABSI rates
Literature review is the part of the research that offers the basic overview of the information that is available on the topic in question. For the readers, the literature review of any topic is an informative piece that helps gain insightful information on the topic without having to conduct the research themselves. As such literature reviews have to be very thorough on the information that they provide on the topic to make sure that they cover all the aspects that have been covered in any of the recent and past research papers. They much offer the baseline on the topic and thereafter over the concluding remarks on the topic and the general relation to the larger study area or field. In this literature review, the element of the effect of using CVC bundles compared to standard interventions on the CLABSI rates is evaluated from a five research papers. The main purpose of the paper is thus to offer the readers insightful information on the comparative analysis between the use of the CVC bundles and the standard interventions. In the past the standard central venous catheter has been found to be the leading cause of blood stream infection and the CVC bundles are designed to reduce the catheter related bloodstream infections (Jeong, Park, Lee, Song, & Lee, 2013).
History
The central venous catheter has been the primary method that has been used for quite some time on the administration of drugs and supply infused solutions in the blood through the veins. Due to the fact that method involves breaking the skin using the catheter, this damage has in quite a number of cases been involved in the infection of the bloodstream (Jeong, Park, Lee, Song, & Lee, 2013). Catheter related bloodstream infections increases the number of days that the patient stay in hospital by nearly 12 days and increases the cost associated with the prolonged stay by an average of $18, 432 dollars (Jeong, Park, Lee, Song, & Lee, 2013). As such, the standard catheter insertion has been found to cause infection to the blood through the broken skin at the point of insertion (Jeong, Park, Lee, Song, & Lee, 2013).
Current evidence
Quoting the CDC, Brachinea, Peterlinib, Pedreira indicated in their research that there is an estimated 15 million catheter insertions that are performed in American on a daily (Brachine, Peterlini & Pedreira, 2012). This is a very huge number that is also indicative of the fact that catheters are an essential device in application for quite a number of therapeutic, from the application of fluids, parenteral nutrition, hemodynamic monitoring, blood derivatives and medicine. Given the high number of patients that have central lines administered to them, the rate of infection is quite high and there is need to look into the best intervention that can be used to reduce the rate of infection related to the same. Although there are quite a number of advantages that are associated with the use of the catheters since their invention, there are also dangers associated with the insertion procedure. As Jeong, Park, Lee, Song an...