Infection and natural history of emergency departmentplaced central venous catheters

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Lemaster, Christopher H ^a   Schuur, Jeremiah D ^a,b   Pandya, Darshan ^a   Pallin, Daniel J ^a,b   Silvia, Jennifer ^a   Yokoe, Deborah ^a,b   Agrawal, Ashish ^a   Hou, Peter C ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 78049484688     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.05.033     Document Type: Article

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