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Getting to Zero BSI
The San Diego Patient Safety Council consists of county-wide representatives from acute care facilities across multiple disciplines including physicians, nurses, pharmacists and respiratory therapists. Council members review literature, apply process improvement tools, and share best practices to obtain consensus in building a comprehensive set of recommendations on specific topics. The Council has developed three tool kits – ICU Sedation Guidelines of Care, PCA Guidelines of Care and Safe Administration of High-Risk IV Medications. Current efforts focus on standardizing dose limits and creating a community standard for soft and hard limits for the original 34 high-risk IV medications that were the subject of the first project.
Tool Kit: ICU Sedation Guidelines of Care (Jan 2010)Tool Kit: Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Guidelines of Care (December 2008)Tool Kit: Safe Administration of High-Risk IV Medications (November 2006)