New saving lives high impact interventions
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The Department of Health have revised the care bundles for a number of high impact interventions such as cannulation and central venous catheters. Chlorhexidine 2% gets a number of mentions and the dwell time for peripheral cannulae has been extended to 96 hours – wow!
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