Measuring "hang time": Contamination of intraarterial flush solutions over time

Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 38-41

  Boxleitner, Tammy J ^a   Valle, Matthew ^b  

^a Swedish American Health System   (United States)

^b ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL LOAD; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PHARMACEUTICAL SOLUTIONS; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350198397     PISSN: 07304625     EISSN: 15388646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003465-200111000-00010     Document Type: Article

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