SSI
A surgical site infection that involves only the skin and subcutaneous tissue of the incision.
What is a Superficial Incisional SSI?
A very common gram-positive human pathogen resistant to oxacillin, cefoxitin, or methicillin.
What is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)?
A device used to support, assist, or control respiration through the application of positive pressure to the airway delivered via an artificial airway, such as an oral/nasal endotracheal or tracheostomy tube.
What is a ventilator?
The NHSN defined degrees Celsius that qualifies as a fever.
What is 38.0o?
The collection date of the first positive diagnostic test that is used as an element to meet the site-specific infection criterion, the 3 calendar days before and the 3 calendar days after.
The anesthesiologist's assessment of the patient's preoperative physical condition.
What is an ASA score?
American Society of Anesthesiologists’ (ASA) Physical Status Classification System
The specific count of infections that meet NHSN criteria during the defined time period.
What is a numerator?
A day on which the patient was administered a new antimicrobial agent within the VAE Window Period.
A symptomatic non-catheter-associated urinary tract infection in a patient of any age.
What is a SUTI 1b?
A laboratory confirmed bloodstream infection (LCBI) that is not secondary to an infection at another body site.
What is a primary bloodstream infection (BSI)?
The two standardized systems of operative procedure codes used to determine NHSN procedure categories.
What are ICD-10 and CPT codes?
International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision Clinical Modifications/Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-CM/PCS)
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
The 14-day timeframe during which no new infections of the same type are reported.
What is the 14-day rule?
OR
Repeat infection timeframe (RIT)?
The fraction of oxygen in inspired gas.
What is FiO2?
What is abdominal pain?
The blood vessels that terminate at or close to the heart.
What are the great vessels?
The closure of a surgical incision when any portion of the incision at the skin level is closed by any manner.
What is primary closure?
A statistical measure that indicates whether observed healthcare data (such as infections or antimicrobial use) is significantly different from a predicted baseline.
What is a P-value?
An increase in the daily minimum PEEP values or an increase in the daily minimum FiO2 that follows a stable baseline period and is sustained for at least 2 or more calendar days.
What is the period of worsening oxygenation?
The period in which a blood specimen must be collected for a secondary bloodstream infection to be attributed to a urinary tract infection.
What is the secondary BSI attribution period?
A central line that has been in place for more than two consecutive calendar days, following the first access of the central line, in an inpatient location, during the current admission.
What is an eligible central line?
Minimal inflammation and discharge confined to the points of suture or staple penetration site.
What is a stitch abscess?
A positive C. diff test collected from a patient who was discharged from the facility less than or equal to 28 days prior to current date of stool specimen collection.
Secretions from the lungs, bronchi, or trachea that contain ≥ 25 neutrophils and ≤ 10 squamous epithelial cells per low power field.
What are purulent respiratory secretions?
A condition in which there is dysfunction or damage to the nerves that control the bladder as a result of a spinal cord injury.
What is Spinal Cord Injury-associated Neurogenic Bladder (SCI-NB)?
(Must get 4 of 8 to get 500 points. Less than 4 correct, 100 points each.)
What are arterial catheters, arteriovenous grafts or fistulas, ECMO, balloon pumps, peripheral IV, midline catheters, total artificial heart, or ventricular assist devices?