Needleless connection valves - Commentary from a clinical perspective;Nadelfreie konnektionsventile und blutstrominfektionen - Kommentar aus klinischer sicht

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 206-208

  Simon, Arne ^a,c   Trautmann, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Iv. catheter bloodstream infection; Valve connectors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; DISINFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATERIALS HANDLING; NEEDLE; NEEDLE FREE CONNECTOR; NOTE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NEEDLES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38549090282     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1017499     Document Type: Note

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