Strategies for prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 391-395

  Sitges Serra, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infections; Catheter; Hub; Prevention; Skin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ASEPSIS; BACTEREMIA; CANDIDA; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTAMINATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISINFECTION; ENTEROBACTER; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ASEPSIS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; SKIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032852198     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005200050298     Document Type: Review

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