Current practices in skin antisepsis for central venous catheterisation in UK tertiary-level neonatal units

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Datta, M K ^a   Clarke, P ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; POVIDONE IODINE;

ANTISEPSIS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UMBILICAL ARTERY CATHETER; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTISEPSIS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SKIN;

EID: 47849105375     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2008.137430     Document Type: Letter

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