Povidone-iodine ointment and gauze dressings associated with reduced catheter-related infection in seriously ill neurosurgical patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 696-698

  Fukunaga, Atsushi ^a,b   Naritaka, Heiji ^a   Fukaya, Raita ^a   Tabuse, Masanao ^a   Nakamura, Tsuneo ^a  

^a Saiseikai Kanagawa ken Hospital   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POVIDONE IODINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; NEUROSURGERY; OINTMENT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; WOUND DRESSING;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; BANDAGES; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRITICAL CARE; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; OINTMENTS; POVIDONE-IODINE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4143064636     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502464     Document Type: Article

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