Vicky Payne 21 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Dear all- I am posting this via the 99NICU app to test it!! But I am also interested to know what strength Chlorhexidine people use prior to central line insertion in ELBW infants and 23 (?22?) to 25 weeks???Thanks in advance! Best wishes Vicky x 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Stefan Johansson 641 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 And I reply on the app :) (which I find a bit clunky still)we would use phys sodium chloride for ELBW infants Link to post Share on other sites
Stefan Johansson 641 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 @Vicky Payne Found these previous threads: Link to post Share on other sites
Vicky Payne 21 Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 On 11/12/2020 at 6:29 PM, Stefan Johansson said: And I reply on the app (which I find a bit clunky still) we would use phys sodium chloride for ELBW infants Hmmm I didn't even realise this had posted from the app!! ooops! Interesting you use saline only. What are your infection rates per 1000 CL days in this particular cohort of babies???? Link to post Share on other sites
Karen 10 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Hi Vicky Due to skin fragility in this cohort of infants (and previous experience), we use the 0.1% Chlorhexidine irrigation solution in all infants < 28/40 until the epidermal layers stratify Link to post Share on other sites
James Marceau 10 Posted Tuesday at 12:04 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 12:04 AM Hi Vicky We use 0.5% Aqueous Chlorhexidine for premature infants less than 30/40 or less than 1000grams. We have only had one 24/40 triplet with 6-7% partial thickness contact burns from this solution. James Link to post Share on other sites
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