Bacterial colonization and infection rate of continuous catheters in children

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 712-716

  Kost Byerly, Sabine ^a   Tobin, Joseph R ^b   Greenberg, Robert S ^a   Billett, Carol ^a   Zahurak, Marianna ^a   Yaster, Myron ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CELLULITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SICKLE CELL CRISIS;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION; CELLULITIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SUPPURATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031979166     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199804000-00007     Document Type: Article

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