What is the Vascular Access Safety Committee?
The Vanderbilt Vascular Access Safety Committee is a sub-committee of the Patient Safety Committee.
- A multidisciplinary team responsible for reviewing Vanderbilt's approach to vascular access in a variety of settings.
- Focus on patient safety as an essential in vascular access.
- Responsible for review of devices, infection control statistics, policies, consistency of practice, unusual occurrences.
Specific Objectives of the Vanderbilt Vascular Access Safety Committee
- Provide consultation to practitioners for vascular access related problems
- Development, oversight and monitoring of all institutional policies and practices governing the insertion, maintenance, removal, and complications related to vascular access.
- Overseeing practitioner adherence to vascular access related policies.
- Utilization of computerized database for continuous collection, analysis, and reporting of data regarding catheter utilization and complications.
- Providing education and consultation regarding vascular access practice and problems.
- Placement of all vascular access and oversight of insertion practices.
- Evaluation of new and existing vascular access devices and vascular access related products and technology.
- Design, implementation, analysis and publication / presentation of local and industry funded related research.
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