Recommendations and reports about central venous catheter-related infection

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Bacuzzi, Alessandro ^a   Cecchin, Andrea ^a   Del Bosco, Andrea ^a   Cantone, Giovanni ^a   Cuffari, Salvatore ^a  

^a OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ASEPSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHEMOTHERAPY; COST CONTROL; FLUID THERAPY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MATERIAL COATING; MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN FLORA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 33748091346     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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