Segmental percutaneous central venous line cultures for diagnosis of catheter-related sepsis

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ponnusamy, Vennila ^a   Venkatesh, Vidheya ^b   Curley, Anna ^b   Musonda, Patrick ^c   Brown, Nicholas ^b   Tremlett, Catherine ^a   Clarke, Paul ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER RELATED SEPSIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84863480165     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2011-300822     Document Type: Article

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