A new central venous catheter cap: Decreased microbial growth and risk for catheter-related bloodstream infection

Journal of Vascular Access

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-21

  Buchman, A L ^a,b   Spapperi, J ^b   Leopold, P ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Medical Murray Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter cap; Catheter related blood stream infection; Central venous catheter; Infection; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TIME;

2 PROPANOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

2-PROPANOL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHLORHEXIDINE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFECTION CONTROL; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65549104279     PISSN: 11297298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/112972980901000103     Document Type: Article

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