Infections in children receiving extracorporeal life support

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-120

  Tse Chang, Alena ^a   Midodzi, William ^b   Joffe, Ari R ^a   Robinson, Joan L ^a  

^a STOLLERY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ALBERTA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751676526     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657937     Document Type: Article

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