Effect of Intensive Training and Education of Health Care Workers on the Maintenance of Venous Access Devices in Critically Ill Patients at a Tertiary Care Academic Hospital

Phase 1, pre-intervention: The first twelve weeks will include 25 random visits to main ICU and point observations of all venous access devices under parameters like condition of dressing, connectors and documentation. This will also include the comparison of incidence of CLABSI in the pre and post intervention phase.

Phase 2, intervention: Next four weeks will be an intervention in the form of intensive training and education of the HCW (doctors and nurses). The intensive training will be in the form of an online presentation in which the investigators would have videos on care and maintenance of venous access devices, and the importance of documentation of days of insertion and change of dressing.

Phase 3, post-intervention: Another twelve weeks, post-intervention, again 25 random visits will be done to collect point observations about the same parameters of venous access devices and documentation as done in phase 1.