Peripherally inserted central catheters may lower the incidence of catheter-related blood stream infections in patients in surgical intensive care units

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 279-282

  Gunst, Mark ^a   Matsushima, Kazuhide ^a   Vanek, Sue ^a   Gunst, Richard ^a   Shafi, Shahid ^a   Frankel, Heidi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGISTERED NURSE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 80052017271     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2008.058     Document Type: Article

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