The use of the arterial line as a source for blood cultures

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1350-1354

  Levin, Phillip D ^a   Hersch, Moshe ^a   Rudensky, Bernard ^a   Yinnon, Amos M ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arterial catheter; Bacteremia; Bacteriological methods; Blood cultures; Central venous catheter; Colonization; Contamination; Critical illness; Intensive care unit; Line sepsis; Microbiological techniques; Septicemia; Venipuncture

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; SEPSIS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 0033797247     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340000607     Document Type: Article

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