Should we still need to systematically perform catheter culture in the intensive care unit?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1556-1558

  Timsit, Jean François ^a,b   Lugosi, Maxime ^a   Minet, Clémence ^a   Schwebel, Carole ^a  

^a HÔPITAL MICHALLON   (France)

^b INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

Author keywords

central vein catheter; colonization; treatment

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA; CATHETER CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EDITORIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79957661319     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318215c0f3     Document Type: Editorial

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