The micro-organism responsible for central venous catheter related bloodstream infection depends on catheter site [10]

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1449-1450

  Lorente, Leonardo ^a   Jiménez, Alejandro ^a   Iribarren, José Luis ^a   Jiménez, Juan José ^a   Martín, María M ^a   Mora, María L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; JUGULAR VEIN; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; RISK FACTOR; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SYMPTOM; VASCULAR ACCESS;

APACHE; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; JUGULAR VEINS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN;

EID: 33747604125     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0266-7     Document Type: Letter

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