Microbial contamination of blood conservation devices during routine use in the critical care setting: Results of a prospective, randomized trial

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1157-1162

  Peruzzi, William T ^a   Noskin, Gary A ^a   Moen, Suellen G ^a   Yungbluth, Margaret ^a   Lichtenthal, Peter ^a   Shapiro, Barry A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blood conservation; catheterization; colonization, bacterial; critical care; critical illness; fungal infection; intensive care unit; nosocomial infection; quantitative cultures; sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CRITICAL CARE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029995632     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199607000-00015     Document Type: Article

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