Subcutaneous tunneling of caudal catheters reduces the rate of bacterial colonization to that of lumbar epidural catheters

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 689-693

  Bubeck, Jörg ^a   Boos, Karin ^b   Krause, Helmut ^c   Thies, Karl Christian ^d  

^a Tagesklinik Heilbronn   (Germany)

^b KINDERKRANKENHAUS AUF DER BULT   (Germany)

^c Krankenhaus Waldfriede   (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 4143082815     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000130023.48259.FB     Document Type: Article

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