Results from the project demonstrated a CRBSI reduction rate from 4.2 (2,331 catheter days) to 0.4 (2,477 catheter days) when the ZFD connector was used. In a recent publication Caillouet (2012) describes a project to protect the intraluminal pathway with zero fluid displacement IV connectors.

Lewis (2009) also describes the need to implement an “aseptic conscience”, which is further described as the “awareness of sterile and non sterile items” and “the ability to take corrective action should contamination occur”.

As early as the first half of the 1970’s Maki et al suggested that the “manipulation of virtually every component of the intravenous delivery system may result in contamination of the system” (Maki, Goldmann, and Rhame 1973).

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Her recommendations conclude with the overarching statement that practitioners must not allow clean or disinfected items to come into contact with dirty items. In the world of infusion therapy this involves the protection of intraluminal and extraluminal sources of infection.