Reduced rates of catheter-associated infection by use of a new silver-impregnated central venous catheter

Infection

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Boswald M ^a   Lugauer, S ^a   Regenfus, Anja ^a   Braun, G G ^b   Martus, P ^a   Geis, Christine ^a   Scharf, J ^a   Bechert, T ^a   Greil, J ^a   Guggenbichler, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVER;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SILVER IMPREGNATION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILVER;

EID: 0344780199     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02561621     Document Type: Article

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