Why should paired blood cultures not be useful for diagnosing catheter-related bacteremia in critically ill patients? [2]

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1402-1403

  Blot, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036275136     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200206000-00058     Document Type: Letter

References (7)

1. Difference in time to positivity of hubblood versus nonhub-blood cultures is not useful for the diagnosis of catheter-related bloodstream infection in critically ill patients
2. Diagnosis of catheter-related bacteraemia: A prospective comparison of the time to positivity of central vs. peripheral blood cultures
3. Infectious complications of indwelling vascular catheters
4. Differential quantitative blood cultures in the diagnosis of catheter-related sepsis in intensive care units
5. Diagnosis of catheter-related bloodstream infection: Differential time to positivity for short-term and long-term central venous catheters
6. Accuracy and cost-effectiveness of new tests for diagnosis of catheter-related bloodstream infections