Microorganisms responsible for intravascular catheter-related bloodstream infection according to the catheter site

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2424-2427

  Lorente, Leonardo ^a   Jiménez, Alejandro ^a   Santana, Melitón ^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

Bloodstream infection; Catheter related infection; Femoral; Gram negative bacteria; Yeasts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

CANDIDIASIS; CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 34748860957     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000284589.63641.B8     Document Type: Article

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