When a patient requires long-term access to medication or fluids through an Intravenous (IV), a central line is put in place to provide easy access to a vein. It is placed into a large vein in the neck, chest, groin, arm or abdomen. This is used instead of having to frequently insert needles for treatments such as chemotherapy, antibiotics and intravenous fluids, and feeding, or to take samples of blood for testing. Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) often require a central line since they are seriously ill, and will require a lot of medication, for a long period of time.<\/p>\n
| <\/th>\n | Civic Campus<\/th>\n | General Campus<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||
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| 2025\/2026<\/th>\n | # Cases<\/th>\n | *Number of Central Line Days<\/th>\n | Central Line Infection Incidents \/ 1,000<\/th>\n | # Cases<\/th>\n | *Number of Central Line Days<\/th>\n | Central Line Infection Incidents \/ 1,000<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Q1 – Apr to June<\/th>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,683<\/td>\n | 0.59<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | 1,287<\/td>\n | 0.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Q2 – July to Sept<\/th>\n | –<\/td>\n | 1,765<\/td>\n | 0.00<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | 1,228<\/td>\n | 0.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Q3 – Oct to Dec<\/th>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,475<\/td>\n | 0.68<\/td>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,467<\/td>\n | 0.68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Q4 – Jan to Mar<\/th>\n | –<\/td>\n | 1,437<\/td>\n | 0.00<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | 1,460<\/td>\n | 0.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fiscal 2025-26 YTD<\/th>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 6,360<\/td>\n | 0.31<\/td>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 5,442<\/td>\n | 0.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2024\/2025<\/th>\n | # Cases<\/th>\n | *Number of Central Line Days<\/th>\n | Central Line Infection Incidents \/ 1,000<\/th>\n | # Cases<\/th>\n | *Number of Central Line Days<\/th>\n | Central Line Infection Incidents \/ 1,000<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Q1 – Apr to June<\/th>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,597<\/td>\n | 0.63<\/td>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,259<\/td>\n | 0.79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Q2 – July to Sept<\/th>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,695<\/td>\n | 1.18<\/td>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,092<\/td>\n | 1.83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Q3 – Oct to Dec<\/th>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,537<\/td>\n | 0.65<\/td>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,411<\/td>\n | 0.71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Q4 – Jan to Mar<\/th>\n | –<\/td>\n | 1,550<\/td>\n | 0.00<\/td>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 1,540<\/td>\n | 1.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fiscal 2024-25 YTD<\/th>\n | <5<\/td>\n | 6,379<\/td>\n | 0.63<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n | 5,302<\/td>\n | 1.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Source: Critical Care Information System (CCIS) When a patient requires long-term access to medication or fluids through an Intravenous (IV), a central line is put in place to provide easy access to a vein. It is placed into a large vein in the neck, chest, groin, arm or abdomen. This is used instead of having to frequently insert needles for treatments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":1963,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278437,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6748\/revisions\/278437"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |