Epidural catheter colonization is not associated with infection

Surgical Infections

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 359-365

  Kostopanagiotou, Georgia ^a   Kyroudi, Sofia ^b   Panidis, Dimitrios ^b   Relia, Panagiota ^a   Danalatos, Andreas ^a   Smyrniotis, Vassilios ^a   Pourgiezi, Theodora ^a   Kouskouni, Evangelia ^a   Voros, Dionyssis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; FEVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0344406290     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109629602762539571     Document Type: Article

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